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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1275 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide Federal-local community partnership construction funding to local |
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| 6 | 6 | | educational agencies eligible to receive payments under the Impact Aid |
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| 7 | 7 | | program. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL3, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | IRONO(for herself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | H |
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| 13 | 13 | | EINRICH, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. SCHATZ, Ms. SMITH, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mrs. G |
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| 15 | 15 | | ILLIBRAND, and Mr. KELLY) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 16 | 16 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, |
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| 17 | 17 | | Labor, and Pensions |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To provide Federal-local community partnership construction |
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| 20 | 20 | | funding to local educational agencies eligible to receive |
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| 21 | 21 | | payments under the Impact Aid program. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Impact Aid Infrastruc-4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ture Partnership Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 6 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) F |
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| 29 | 29 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) A significant percentage of federally im-1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | pacted local educational agencies serve schools with 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | facilities that fall far short of meeting basic life-safe-3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ty standards that ensure a safe learning environ-4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ment for students and staff alike. 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) The American Society of Civil Engineers 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | rated school facilities nationally a D+. Many school 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | buildings of schools served by federally impacted 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | local educational agencies were built more than 65 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | years ago. 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (3) A 2009 study by the Government Account-11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ability Office found that better school facilities were 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | associated with positive student outcomes in aca-13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | demic achievement, attendance, and higher gradua-14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | tion rates. A second Government Accountability Of-15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | fice study conducted in 2020, concluded that many 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | school facilities of schools served by federally im-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | pacted local educational agencies are in need of re-18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | pair, modernization, renovation, or replacement. 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (4) Data compiled through surveys of federally 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | impacted local educational agencies by both the Na-21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | tional Association of Federally Impacted Schools and 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the National Indian Impacted Schools Association 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | revealed the following: 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (A) 65 percent of respondents indicated 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | their facilities are in fair to poor condition. 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (B) 26 percent of respondents have build-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ings that are more than 80 years old. 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (C) 53 percent of respondents have no 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | practical capacity to issue bonds. 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (D) 82 percent of respondents identified 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘lack of funds’’ as a reason for delaying con-8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | struction projects. Construction costs in rural, 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | many times geographically remote, local edu-10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | cational agencies have increased by 30 percent 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | or more in recent years making facility up-12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | grades and replacement even more challenging. 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (5) Local educational agencies with some bond-14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ing capacity or that have access to other sources of 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | funding are still in need of assistance to improve 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | their buildings to ensure a safe learning environ-17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ment. 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (6) Federally impacted local educational agen-19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | cies located in rural settings have generally higher 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | labor costs and transportation costs for workers and 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | materials that have to be brought to a school con-22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | struction site than local educational agencies located 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | in an urban setting with school construction costs. 24 |
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| 87 | 87 | | Such costs are normally built in by the contractor 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | affecting the total cost of the project. 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (7) Teacher recruitment and retention is a 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | major challenge for local educational agencies serv-4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ing students residing on Indian Treaty and Federal 5 |
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| 92 | 92 | | trust land as well as land conveyed pursuant to the 6 |
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| 93 | 93 | | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 7 |
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| 94 | 94 | | 1601 et seq.). Because there are no private housing 8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | or rental units available to non-Tribal members, the 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | local educational agency must build and maintain 10 |
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| 97 | 97 | | rental units. Without local educational agency owned 11 |
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| 98 | 98 | | housing, the daily commute can be as much as 90 12 |
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| 99 | 99 | | miles or more each way. One Arizona local edu-13 |
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| 100 | 100 | | cational agency estimated that the cost to rebuild 14 |
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| 101 | 101 | | antiquated teacher housing to be $100,000,000. 15 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (8) It is common practice that State edu-16 |
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| 103 | 103 | | cational agencies compile infrastructure needs in the 17 |
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| 104 | 104 | | local educational agencies located in the State. For 18 |
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| 105 | 105 | | example, the Hawaii Department of Education has 19 |
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| 106 | 106 | | identified more than $2,000,000,000 in needed re-20 |
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| 107 | 107 | | pair, renovation, and construction projects to ad-21 |
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| 108 | 108 | | dress— 22 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (A) structural and health and safety needs; 23 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (B) compliance with the Americans with 24 |
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| 111 | 111 | | Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et 25 |
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| 115 | 115 | | seq.) and title IX of the Education Amend-1 |
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| 116 | 116 | | ments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.); and 2 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (C) various other infrastructure and con-3 |
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| 118 | 118 | | struction needs. 4 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (b) P |
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| 120 | 120 | | URPOSES.—The purpose of this Act is to provide 5 |
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| 121 | 121 | | a collaborative Federal-local community partnership that 6 |
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| 122 | 122 | | will provide both Federal and local funding to address the 7 |
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| 123 | 123 | | facility needs of federally impacted local educational agen-8 |
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| 124 | 124 | | cies. The partnership shall be designed to— 9 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (1) provide formula grants to federally im-10 |
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| 126 | 126 | | pacted local educational agencies that have no capac-11 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ity to issue bonds because of the presence of large 12 |
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| 128 | 128 | | parcels of non-taxable Federal property; 13 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (2) provide partnership grants requiring a local 14 |
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| 130 | 130 | | match to local educational agencies that have a lim-15 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ited capacity to provide facility funding; 16 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (3) base local matching dollars on the learning 17 |
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| 133 | 133 | | opportunity threshold total percentage, as described 18 |
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| 134 | 134 | | in subparagraph (B)(i) of section 7003(b)(3) of the 19 |
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| 135 | 135 | | Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 20 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(3)); and 21 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (4) provide grants under section 7007(a) of the 22 |
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| 138 | 138 | | Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 23 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (20 U.S.C. 7707(a)) to address local educational 24 |
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| 143 | 143 | | agency needs to modernize and provide basic build-1 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ing improvements. 2 |
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| 145 | 145 | | SEC. 3. IMPACT AID CONSTRUCTION GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 3 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (a) F |
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| 147 | 147 | | UNDING ANDSUNSET.— 4 |
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| 148 | 148 | | (1) A |
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| 149 | 149 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS .— 5 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (A) I |
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| 151 | 151 | | N GENERAL.—There are authorized to 6 |
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| 152 | 152 | | be appropriated $250,000,000 for the first fis-7 |
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| 153 | 153 | | cal year that begins after the date of enactment 8 |
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| 154 | 154 | | of this Act, and each of the 3 succeeding fiscal 9 |
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| 155 | 155 | | years. 10 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (B) D |
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| 157 | 157 | | ESIGNATION.—Of the amount appro-11 |
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| 158 | 158 | | priated for each fiscal year, the Secretary of 12 |
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| 159 | 159 | | Education shall designate— 13 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (i) 75 percent for competitive grants 14 |
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| 161 | 161 | | awarded under section 4; and 15 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (ii) 25 percent for formula grants 16 |
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| 163 | 163 | | awarded under section 5. 17 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (2) S |
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| 165 | 165 | | UPPLEMENTAL FUNDING .—The amount 18 |
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| 166 | 166 | | authorized under paragraph (1) shall be in addition 19 |
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| 167 | 167 | | to any amounts authorized to be appropriated or 20 |
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| 168 | 168 | | otherwise made available to carry out section 7007 21 |
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| 169 | 169 | | of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 22 |
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| 170 | 170 | | 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7707). 23 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (3) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS .—Any amounts 1 |
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| 175 | 175 | | appropriated under paragraph (1) shall remain 2 |
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| 176 | 176 | | available until expended. 3 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (4) S |
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| 178 | 178 | | UNSET.—The authority to award grants 4 |
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| 179 | 179 | | under this Act shall expire at the end of the 4-year 5 |
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| 180 | 180 | | period beginning on the date in which funds are first 6 |
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| 181 | 181 | | made available to award a grant under this Act. 7 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (b) R |
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| 183 | 183 | | ESERVATION FOR TECHNICALASSISTANCE, 8 |
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| 184 | 184 | | M |
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| 185 | 185 | | ANAGEMENT, ANDOVERSIGHT.—From the funds appro-9 |
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| 186 | 186 | | priated under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary of Edu-10 |
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| 187 | 187 | | cation may reserve not more than half of 1 percent for 11 |
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| 188 | 188 | | technical assistance, management, and oversight of the ac-12 |
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| 189 | 189 | | tivities carried out with those funds. 13 |
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| 190 | 190 | | SEC. 4. COMPETITIVE GRANT AWARDS BASED ON FACILITY 14 |
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| 191 | 191 | | CONDITION. 15 |
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| 192 | 192 | | The Secretary of Education shall, based on applica-16 |
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| 193 | 193 | | tions submitted by local educational agencies under sec-17 |
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| 194 | 194 | | tion 6 and eligible for payments under section 7002 of 18 |
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| 195 | 195 | | the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 19 |
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| 196 | 196 | | U.S.C. 7702) or section 7003 of the Elementary and Sec-20 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703), establish 21 |
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| 198 | 198 | | a facility condition priority listing for grant awards as fol-22 |
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| 199 | 199 | | lows: 23 |
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| 200 | 200 | | (1) E |
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| 201 | 201 | | MERGENCY GRANTS PRIORITY ONE .—The 24 |
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| 202 | 202 | | Secretary of Education shall award grants, on a 25 |
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| 206 | 206 | | competitive basis, by first identifying those local 1 |
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| 207 | 207 | | educational agencies— 2 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (A) that have a facility— 3 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (i) as certified by a State, county, 4 |
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| 210 | 210 | | city, or Tribal official or a licensed archi-5 |
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| 211 | 211 | | tect or engineer, that is in violation of a 6 |
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| 212 | 212 | | Federal, State, county, city, or Tribal 7 |
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| 213 | 213 | | building code representing a health hazard 8 |
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| 214 | 214 | | to students and school personnel; 9 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (ii) that fails to meet building and 10 |
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| 216 | 216 | | classroom standards to ensure the health 11 |
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| 217 | 217 | | and safety of students and staff, as set by 12 |
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| 218 | 218 | | the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-13 |
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| 219 | 219 | | vention, requiring classroom building modi-14 |
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| 220 | 220 | | fication or replacement to— 15 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (I) ensure quality ventilation sys-16 |
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| 222 | 222 | | tems; 17 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (II) ensure classroom space to re-18 |
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| 224 | 224 | | duce class sizes and ensure social 19 |
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| 225 | 225 | | distancing guidelines when required; 20 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (III) address structural defi-21 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ciencies; and 22 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (IV) address other health, safety, 23 |
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| 229 | 229 | | and environmental conditions that 24 |
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| 233 | 233 | | would impact the health, safety, and 1 |
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| 234 | 234 | | learning ability of students; 2 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (iii) that is not in compliance with 3 |
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| 236 | 236 | | meeting student capacity standards as re-4 |
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| 237 | 237 | | quired by the State, including failure to 5 |
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| 238 | 238 | | meet accessibility standards for persons 6 |
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| 239 | 239 | | with disabilities; or 7 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (iv) that lacks adequate service capac-8 |
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| 241 | 241 | | ity or infrastructure necessary to utilize 9 |
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| 242 | 242 | | technology to offer a curriculum that 10 |
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| 243 | 243 | | meets the current academic standards in 11 |
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| 244 | 244 | | the State in which the local educational 12 |
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| 245 | 245 | | agency is located; or 13 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (B) in the case of local educational agen-14 |
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| 247 | 247 | | cies eligible for payments under section 15 |
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| 248 | 248 | | 7003(a)(1)(C) of the Elementary and Sec-16 |
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| 249 | 249 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 17 |
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| 250 | 250 | | 7703(a)(1)(C)), that have teacher housing that 18 |
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| 251 | 251 | | is in need of repair or new construction to meet 19 |
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| 252 | 252 | | the needs of school personnel residing in such 20 |
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| 253 | 253 | | housing. 21 |
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| 254 | 254 | | (2) E |
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| 255 | 255 | | MERGENCY GRANTS PRIORITY TWO .— 22 |
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| 256 | 256 | | After identifying those local educational agencies as 23 |
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| 257 | 257 | | described in paragraph (1) for priority in grant 24 |
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| 258 | 258 | | awards, the Secretary of Education shall then award 25 |
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| 262 | 262 | | grants, on a competitive basis, by identifying those 1 |
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| 263 | 263 | | local educational agencies that— 2 |
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| 264 | 264 | | (A) have a facility that— 3 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (i) does not meet minimum structural 4 |
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| 266 | 266 | | or health and safety standards as adopted 5 |
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| 267 | 267 | | by the American Society of Civil Engineers 6 |
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| 268 | 268 | | and is considered to be in poor condition 7 |
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| 269 | 269 | | and represents a potential health or safety 8 |
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| 270 | 270 | | hazard to students and school personnel, 9 |
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| 271 | 271 | | including due to— 10 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (I) poor indoor air quality; 11 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (II) the presence of hazardous 12 |
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| 274 | 274 | | and toxic substances and chemicals; 13 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (III) the lack of safe drinking 14 |
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| 276 | 276 | | water at the tap and water used for 15 |
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| 277 | 277 | | meal preparation, including due to the 16 |
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| 278 | 278 | | level of lead and other contaminants 17 |
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| 279 | 279 | | in such water; 18 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (IV) energy and water ineffi-19 |
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| 281 | 281 | | ciency; 20 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (V) excessive classroom noise; 21 |
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| 283 | 283 | | (VI) structural deficiencies; or 22 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (VII) other health, safety, and 23 |
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| 285 | 285 | | environmental conditions that would 24 |
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| 289 | 289 | | impact the health, safety, and learn-1 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ing ability of students; 2 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (ii) is not in compliance with meeting 3 |
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| 292 | 292 | | student capacity standards as required by 4 |
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| 293 | 293 | | the State, including failure to meet accessi-5 |
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| 294 | 294 | | bility standards for persons with disabil-6 |
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| 295 | 295 | | ities; or 7 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (iii) lacks adequate services necessary 8 |
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| 297 | 297 | | to utilize technology to offer a curriculum 9 |
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| 298 | 298 | | that meets the current academic standards 10 |
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| 299 | 299 | | in the State in which the local educational 11 |
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| 300 | 300 | | agency is located; or 12 |
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| 301 | 301 | | (B) in the case of local educational agen-13 |
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| 302 | 302 | | cies eligible for payments under section 14 |
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| 303 | 303 | | 7003(a)(1)(C) of the Elementary and Sec-15 |
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| 304 | 304 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 16 |
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| 305 | 305 | | 7703(a)(1)(C)), have an identified need for 17 |
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| 306 | 306 | | teacher housing to ensure a safe living environ-18 |
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| 307 | 307 | | ment for teachers and their families or a need 19 |
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| 308 | 308 | | for repair of existing housing or new construc-20 |
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| 309 | 309 | | tion to meet the basic needs of school personnel 21 |
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| 310 | 310 | | residing in such housing. 22 |
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| 311 | 311 | | SEC. 5. FORMULA GRANTS. 23 |
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| 312 | 312 | | From funds designated under section 3(a)(1)(B)(ii), 24 |
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| 313 | 313 | | the Secretary of Education shall make payments in ac-25 |
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| 317 | 317 | | cordance with section 7007(a) of the Elementary and Sec-1 |
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| 318 | 318 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7707(a)), ex-2 |
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| 319 | 319 | | cept that— 3 |
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| 320 | 320 | | (1) when calculating the total number of 4 |
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| 321 | 321 | | weighted student units as described in paragraph 5 |
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| 322 | 322 | | (3)(A)(i)(II) of section 7007(a) of the Elementary 6 |
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| 323 | 323 | | and Secondary Education of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7 |
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| 324 | 324 | | 7707(a)), the Secretary of Education shall also in-8 |
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| 325 | 325 | | clude the total number of weighted student units of 9 |
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| 326 | 326 | | children described in subparagraphs (B) and (D)(i) 10 |
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| 327 | 327 | | of section 7003(a)(1) of such Act for the preceding 11 |
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| 328 | 328 | | year for all local educational agencies not meeting 12 |
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| 329 | 329 | | the requirements as described in section 13 |
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| 330 | 330 | | 7007(a)(2)(B) of such Act but that meet the re-14 |
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| 331 | 331 | | quirements of section 572(a)(2) of the National De-15 |
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| 332 | 332 | | fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (20 16 |
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| 333 | 333 | | U.S.C. 7703b(a)(2)); and 17 |
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| 334 | 334 | | (2) when calculating the total number of 18 |
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| 335 | 335 | | weighted student units as described in section 19 |
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| 336 | 336 | | 7003(a)(1)(C) of the Elementary and Secondary 20 |
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| 337 | 337 | | Education of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(a)(1)(C)), the 21 |
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| 338 | 338 | | Secretary of Education shall also include the number 22 |
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| 339 | 339 | | of children determined under section 7003(a)(1)(C) 23 |
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| 340 | 340 | | of such Act for the preceding school year that con-24 |
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| 341 | 341 | | stituted at least 20 percent of the total student en-25 |
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| 346 | 346 | | ceding school year. 2 |
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| 347 | 347 | | SEC. 6. APPLICATION. 3 |
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| 348 | 348 | | A local educational agency eligible to apply for a 4 |
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| 349 | 349 | | grant section 4 that desires to receive a grant shall submit 5 |
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| 350 | 350 | | an application at such a time and containing such infor-6 |
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| 351 | 351 | | mation as determined appropriate by the Secretary of 7 |
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| 352 | 352 | | Education. 8 |
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| 353 | 353 | | SEC. 7. AWARD CRITERIA. 9 |
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| 354 | 354 | | When awarding a grant under section 4, the Sec-10 |
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| 355 | 355 | | retary of Education shall first apply the facility condition 11 |
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| 356 | 356 | | priority listing established under such section, and after 12 |
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| 357 | 357 | | such priority requirements are applied, the Secretary of 13 |
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| 358 | 358 | | Education shall then— 14 |
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| 359 | 359 | | (1) first consider those local educational agen-15 |
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| 360 | 360 | | cies (or, in the case of a local educational agency 16 |
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| 361 | 361 | | that does not have the authority to tax or issue 17 |
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| 362 | 362 | | bonds, the agency’s fiscal agent) that have limited or 18 |
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| 363 | 363 | | no capacity to issue bonds or have a total assessed 19 |
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| 364 | 364 | | value of real property that may be taxed for school 20 |
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| 365 | 365 | | purposes of less than $50,000,000; 21 |
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| 366 | 366 | | (2) next consider those local educational agen-22 |
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| 367 | 367 | | cies not described in paragraph (1) that— 23 |
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| 371 | 371 | | (A) have a total assessed value of real 1 |
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| 372 | 372 | | property that may be taxed for school purposes 2 |
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| 373 | 373 | | of less than $100,000,000; or 3 |
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| 374 | 374 | | (B) have an assessed value of real property 4 |
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| 375 | 375 | | that may be taxed for school purposes per stu-5 |
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| 376 | 376 | | dent that is less than the average of the as-6 |
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| 377 | 377 | | sessed value of real property that may be taxed 7 |
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| 378 | 378 | | for school purposes per student in the State in 8 |
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| 379 | 379 | | which the local educational agency is located; 9 |
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| 380 | 380 | | and 10 |
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| 381 | 381 | | (3) finally consider— 11 |
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| 382 | 382 | | (A) the number and percentages of chil-12 |
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| 383 | 383 | | dren described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), 13 |
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| 384 | 384 | | and (D) of section 7003(a)(1) of the Elemen-14 |
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| 385 | 385 | | tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 15 |
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| 386 | 386 | | U.S.C. 7703(a)(1)) enrolled in the school facil-16 |
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| 387 | 387 | | ity to be supported with grant funds; 17 |
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| 388 | 388 | | (B) the learning opportunity threshold 18 |
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| 389 | 389 | | total percentage as described in subparagraph 19 |
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| 390 | 390 | | (B)(i) of section 7003(b)(3) of such Act (20 20 |
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| 391 | 391 | | U.S.C. 7703(b)(3)); 21 |
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| 392 | 392 | | (C) with respect to local educational agen-22 |
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| 393 | 393 | | cies eligible for payments under section 7002 of 23 |
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| 394 | 394 | | such Act (20 U.S.C. 7702), the percentage of 24 |
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| 398 | 398 | | land in the local educational agency that is 1 |
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| 399 | 399 | | Federal property; 2 |
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| 400 | 400 | | (D) the potential use for community pro-3 |
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| 401 | 401 | | grams and events in the school facility to be 4 |
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| 402 | 402 | | supported with grant funds; 5 |
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| 403 | 403 | | (E) the feasibility of project completion 6 |
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| 404 | 404 | | within 24 months from the grant award; and 7 |
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| 405 | 405 | | (F) the availability of other resources for 8 |
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| 406 | 406 | | the proposed project including the use of in- 9 |
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| 407 | 407 | | kind contributions. 10 |
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| 408 | 408 | | SEC. 8. PAYMENTS. 11 |
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| 409 | 409 | | (a) I |
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| 410 | 410 | | NGENERAL.—When making payments for 12 |
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| 411 | 411 | | grants awarded under this Act, the Secretary of Education 13 |
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| 412 | 412 | | shall comply with the following: 14 |
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| 413 | 413 | | (1) Make payment as required in full for those 15 |
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| 414 | 414 | | local educational agencies described in section 4(1) 16 |
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| 415 | 415 | | with no capacity to issue bonds. 17 |
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| 416 | 416 | | (2) Require those local educational agencies not 18 |
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| 417 | 417 | | described in paragraph (1) to pay a percentage of 19 |
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| 418 | 418 | | the total cost of the project supported with grant 20 |
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| 419 | 419 | | funds as follows: 21 |
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| 420 | 420 | | (A) For those local educational agencies 22 |
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| 421 | 421 | | with a learning opportunity threshold total per-23 |
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| 422 | 422 | | centage, as described in subparagraph (B)(i) of 24 |
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| 423 | 423 | | section 7003(b)(3) of the Elementary and Sec-25 |
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| 427 | 427 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1 |
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| 428 | 428 | | 7703(b)(3))— 2 |
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| 429 | 429 | | (i) that is 80 percent or greater, such 3 |
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| 430 | 430 | | agencies shall pay a non-Federal share 4 |
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| 431 | 431 | | equal to 10 percent of the total cost of the 5 |
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| 432 | 432 | | project; 6 |
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| 433 | 433 | | (ii) that is less than 80 percent, but 7 |
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| 434 | 434 | | 50 percent or greater, such agencies shall 8 |
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| 435 | 435 | | pay a non-Federal share equal to 20 per-9 |
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| 436 | 436 | | cent of the total cost of the project; and 10 |
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| 437 | 437 | | (iii) that is less than 50 percent, such 11 |
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| 438 | 438 | | agencies shall pay a non-Federal share 12 |
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| 439 | 439 | | equal to 25 percent of the total cost of the 13 |
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| 440 | 440 | | project. 14 |
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| 441 | 441 | | (B) For those local educational agencies el-15 |
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| 442 | 442 | | igible to receive a payment under section 7002 16 |
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| 443 | 443 | | of the Elementary and Secondary Education 17 |
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| 444 | 444 | | Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702) that are not de-18 |
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| 445 | 445 | | scribed in paragraph (1) of section 4, such 19 |
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| 446 | 446 | | agencies shall pay a non-Federal share equal to 20 |
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| 447 | 447 | | 25 percent of the total cost of the project. 21 |
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| 448 | 448 | | (3) Make payment as required in full for those 22 |
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| 449 | 449 | | local educational agencies described in paragraph (1) 23 |
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| 450 | 450 | | or (2) of section 4, whose payment is $5,000,000 or 24 |
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| 454 | 454 | | less for the year in which they are to receive the 1 |
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| 455 | 455 | | grant. 2 |
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| 456 | 456 | | (4) Make payment to those local educational 3 |
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| 457 | 457 | | agencies described in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 4 |
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| 458 | 458 | | 4, whose payment is more than $5,000,000 for the 5 |
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| 459 | 459 | | year in which they are to receive the grant, after 6 |
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| 460 | 460 | | final drawings and specifications have been approved 7 |
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| 461 | 461 | | by the Secretary of Education and the construction 8 |
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| 462 | 462 | | contract has been entered into, in accordance with 9 |
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| 463 | 463 | | requirements as determined by the Secretary of 10 |
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| 464 | 464 | | Education and at such times and in such install-11 |
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| 465 | 465 | | ments as may be reasonable. 12 |
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| 466 | 466 | | (b) R |
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| 467 | 467 | | EDISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS.—Any funds 13 |
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| 468 | 468 | | paid to a local educational agency under this Act and not 14 |
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| 469 | 469 | | expended, by such a time as determined by the Secretary 15 |
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| 470 | 470 | | of Education, for the purposes for which such funds are 16 |
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| 471 | 471 | | paid shall be redistributed to make payments under sec-17 |
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| 472 | 472 | | tion 7007(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education 18 |
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| 473 | 473 | | Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7707(a)). 19 |
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| 474 | 474 | | SEC. 9. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 20 |
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| 475 | 475 | | (a) U |
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| 476 | 476 | | SE OFFUNDS.— 21 |
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| 477 | 477 | | (1) A |
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| 478 | 478 | | UTHORIZED ACTIVITIES .—Grant funds 22 |
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| 479 | 479 | | under this Act may be used for one or more of the 23 |
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| 480 | 480 | | following: 24 |
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| 481 | 481 | | (A) Construction. 25 |
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| 486 | 486 | | (C) Repair of school facilities. 2 |
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| 487 | 487 | | (2) I |
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| 488 | 488 | | N-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS .—A local edu-3 |
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| 489 | 489 | | cational agency may use in-kind contributions to 4 |
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| 490 | 490 | | meet the non-Federal share requirement under sec-5 |
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| 491 | 491 | | tion 8(a)(2). 6 |
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| 492 | 492 | | (3) P |
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| 493 | 493 | | ROHIBITIONS ON USE OF FUNDS .—A local 7 |
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| 494 | 494 | | educational agency may not use a grant awarded 8 |
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| 495 | 495 | | under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 4 for— 9 |
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| 496 | 496 | | (A) a project for a school facility for which 10 |
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| 497 | 497 | | the agency does not have— 11 |
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| 498 | 498 | | (i) full title; 12 |
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| 499 | 499 | | (ii) a long-term Tribal lease agree-13 |
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| 500 | 500 | | ment; or 14 |
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| 501 | 501 | | (iii) another interest as defined in reg-15 |
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| 502 | 502 | | ulation by the Secretary of Education; and 16 |
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| 503 | 503 | | (B) the acquisition of real property. 17 |
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| 504 | 504 | | (4) S |
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| 505 | 505 | | UPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—A local 18 |
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| 506 | 506 | | educational agency shall use funds awarded under 19 |
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| 507 | 507 | | this Act only to supplement the amount of funds 20 |
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| 508 | 508 | | that would, in the absence of the Federal funds pro-21 |
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| 509 | 509 | | vided under the grant, be made available from non- 22 |
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| 510 | 510 | | Federal sources to carry out construction, renova-23 |
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| 511 | 511 | | tion, or repairs of school facilities as described in 24 |
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| 512 | 512 | | this Act and not to supplant such funds. 25 |
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| 516 | 516 | | (b) ANNUALREPORT ONGRANTPROGRAM.—Not 1 |
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| 517 | 517 | | later than September 30 of the first fiscal year that begins 2 |
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| 518 | 518 | | after the Secretary of Education first awards grants under 3 |
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| 519 | 519 | | this Act and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of 4 |
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| 520 | 520 | | Education shall submit to the appropriate congressional 5 |
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| 521 | 521 | | committees, and make publicly available, a report on the 6 |
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| 522 | 522 | | projects carried out with funds made available under this 7 |
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| 523 | 523 | | Act. 8 |
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| 524 | 524 | | (c) C |
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| 525 | 525 | | ARRY-OVER OFCERTAINAPPLICATIONS.— 9 |
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| 526 | 526 | | (1) I |
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| 527 | 527 | | N GENERAL.—A local educational agency 10 |
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| 528 | 528 | | that applies for a grant under this Act for a fiscal 11 |
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| 529 | 529 | | year and does not receive the grant for the fiscal 12 |
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| 530 | 530 | | year shall have the application for the grant consid-13 |
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| 531 | 531 | | ered for the following fiscal year not to exceed the 14 |
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| 532 | 532 | | end of the 4-year period as described in paragraph 15 |
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| 533 | 533 | | (4) of section 3(a), subject to the priority require-16 |
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| 534 | 534 | | ments of paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 4. 17 |
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| 535 | 535 | | (2) P |
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| 536 | 536 | | RIORITY LISTING.—The Secretary of Edu-18 |
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| 537 | 537 | | cation shall— 19 |
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| 538 | 538 | | (A) maintain a priority listing of local edu-20 |
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| 539 | 539 | | cational agencies meeting the eligibility require-21 |
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| 540 | 540 | | ments found in— 22 |
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| 541 | 541 | | (i) paragraph (1) of section 4; and 23 |
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| 542 | 542 | | (ii) paragraph (2) of section 4; and 24 |
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| 546 | 546 | | (B) update the listing for each of para-1 |
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| 547 | 547 | | graphs (1) and (2) of section (4), including 2 |
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| 548 | 548 | | those local educational agencies that applied for 3 |
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| 549 | 549 | | the previous fiscal year, but were not funded 4 |
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| 550 | 550 | | and for those agencies applying the succeeding 5 |
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| 551 | 551 | | fiscal year. 6 |
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| 552 | 552 | | (d) L |
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| 553 | 553 | | OCALEDUCATIONALAGENCYDEFINED.—In 7 |
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| 554 | 554 | | this Act, the term ‘‘local educational agency’’ has the 8 |
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| 555 | 555 | | meaning given the term in section 7013 of the Elementary 9 |
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| 556 | 556 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7713). 10 |
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