Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 5.djvu/266

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108 STAT. 3756 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 reduce payments under subsection (b) to local educational agencies that do not receive a payment under this subsection. "(ii) If additional funds become available for making pay- ments under subsection (b) for such fiscal year, payments that were reduced under clause (i) shall be increased on the same basis as such payments were reduced. "(B)(i) If the sums made available under this title for any fiscal year are insufficient to pay the full amounts that all local educational agencies in all States are eligible to receive under paragraphs (1) and (2) after the application of subparagraph (A) for such year, the Secretary shall ratably reduce payments to all such agencies for such year. "(ii) If additional funds become available for making pay- ments under paragraphs (1) and (2) for such fiscal year, pay- ments that were reduced under clause (i) shall be increeused on the same basis as such payments were reduced. " (f) ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR HEAVILY IMPACTED LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. — "(1) RESERVATION.— From amounts appropriated under section 8014(b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall provide additional assistance to meet special circumstances relating to the provision of education in local educational agencies eligible to receive assistance under this section. "(2) ELIGIBILITY. —(A) A local educational agency is eligible to receive additional assistance under this subsection only if such agency— "(i)(l) has an enrollment of federally connected children described in subsection (a)(l) which constitutes a percentage of the total student enrollment of such agency which is not less than 50 percent if such agency receives a pay- ment on behalf of children described in subparagraphs (F) and (G) of such subsection, or not less than 40 percent if such agency does not receive a payment on behalf of such children; and "(II) has a tax rate for general fund purposes which is at least 95 percent of the average tax rate for general fund purposes of comparable local educational agencies in the State; "(iiXD has an enrollment of federally connected children described in subsection (a)(1) which constitutes at least 35 percent of the total student enrollment of such agency; and "(II) has a tax rate for general fund purposes which is at least 125 percent of the average tax rate for general fund purposes of comparable local educational agencies in the State; or "(iii) is a local educational agency whose boundaries are the same as a Federal military installation. "(B) If the current expenditures in those local educational agencies which the Secretary has determined to be generally comparable to the local educational agency for which a computation is made under subsection (b)(l)(C) are not reasonably comparable because of unusual geographical factors which affect the current expenditures necessary to maintain, in such agency, a level of education equivalent to that maintained in such other agencies, then the Secretary shall increase the local contribution rate for such agency by such an amount