100 STAT. 1596 State and local governments.
PUBLIC LAW 99-498—OCT. 17, 1986
"(5) Participation in the National Assessment by State and local education agencies selected as part of a sample of such agencies shall be voluntary. Reports. •Yd "(6) The Secretary shall provide for a periodic review of the '^' National Assessment. This review shall provide an opportunity for public comment on the conduct and usefulness of the National Assessment and shall result in a report to the Congress, the President, and the Nation on the findings and recommendations, if any, of the review. The Secretary shall consider the findings and recommendations in designing the competition to select the organization through which the Office carries out the National Assessment. "(f)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Post, p. 1597. section and section 406 of this Act, $72,231,000 for fiscal year 1987 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. Contracts. "(2) The Secretary may not enter into a contract for the purpose of regional educational laboratories under subsection (d)(3)(A)(i) for a period in excess of five years. "(3) Not less than 95 per centum of funds appropriated pursuant to this subsection for any fiscal year shall be expended to carry out this section through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts. "(4) When more than one Federal agency uses funds to support a single project under this section, the Office may act for all such agencies in administering those funds. "(g)(1) In each fiscal year for which the total amount appropriated to carry out this section and section 406 of this Act equals or exceeds the total amount appropriated for fiscal year 1986 to carry out such sections "(A) not less than $17,760,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to carry out subsection (d)(4)(A)(ii) of this section (relating to CGntGrs)' "(B) not 'less than $17,000,000 shall be available in each fiscal
- ^" year to carry out subsection (d)(4)(A)(i) of this section (relating to
labs); "(C) not less than $5,700,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to assist the education resources information centers pursuant to subsection (d)(3)(A) of this section; "(D) not less than $4,000,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to carry out subsection (e) of this section (relating to the National Assessment of Educational Progress); "(E) not less than $8,750,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to carry out section 406 of this Act (relating to the Center for Educational Statistics); and "(F) not less than $500,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to carry out subsection (d)(4)(A)(iii) of this section (relating to field initiated research). "(2) If the sums appropriated for any fiscal year are less than the amount required to be made available under subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph (1), then each of the amounts required to be made available under such subparagraphs shall be ratably reduced. If additional amounts become available for any such fiscal year, such reduced amounts shall be increased on the same basis as they were reduced.". 20 USC I22ie (b) TRANSITION PROVISIONS.—On the effective date of this title, the note. property and records of the National Institute of Education shall be transferred to the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
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