PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978
92 STAT. 2341
lection, if any, and require the responding educational agency or institution to make the same identification if it in turn collects such information or data from other agencies or individuals. "(e)(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), the Secre- Procedures, tary shall develop, in consultation with Federal and State agencies consultation. and local educational agencies, procedures whereby educational agencies and institutions are permitted to submit information required under any Federal educational program to a single Federal or State educational agency. "(2) Any procedures developed under paragraph (1) shall be considered regulations for the purpose of section 431 and shall be sub- 20 USC 1232. mitted subject to disapproval in accordance with section 431(e) of this Act for a period of not to exceed 60 days computed in accordance with such section. "(f) The Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress not less Report and than once every three years, describing the implementation of this recommendations section. Such report shall contain recommendations for revisions to to Congress. Federal laws which the Secretary finds are imposing undue burdens on educational agencies and institutions, and such recommendations shall not be subject to any review by any Federal agency outside the Department. "(f)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants from sums Education appropriated pursuant to this subsection to State educational agencies, management including State agencies responsible for postsecondary education, for information the development or improvement of education management informa- systems, grants. tion systems. "(2) Any State educational agency is eligible for a grant of funds Eligibility. under this subsection subject to the following conditions: " (A) The agency agrees to use such funds for the development or improvement of its management information system and agrees to coordinate all data collection for Federal programs administered by the agency through such a system. "(B) The agency agrees to provide funds to local educational agencies and institutions of higher education for the development or improvement of management information systems when such grants are deemed necessary by the State educational agency. "(C) The State agency agrees to take specific steps, in cooperation with the Secretary and with local educational agencies or institutions of higher education in the State, as appropriate, to eliminate excessive detail and unnecessary and redundant information requests within the State and to achieve the collection of information in the most efficient and effective possible manner so as to avoid imposing undue burdens on local educational agencies or institutions of higher education. "(g) For the purpose of carrying out this subsection— Appropriation "(1) there are authorized to be appropriated for salaries and authorization. expenses $600,000 for fiscal year 1979, $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, and $1,200,000 for each of the two succeeding fiscal years; " (2) there are authorized to be appropriated for grants under paragraph (6) the sums of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, and $50,000,000 for each of the two succeeding fiscal years; and "(3) the sums appropriated according to paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be appropriated as separate line items.". (c) Section 406 of such Act is amended— 20 USC 1221e-I. (1) by striking out subsection (g),and (2) by redesignating subsection (h), and all references thereto, as subsection (g).
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