112 STAT. 2730 PUBLIC LAW 105-285—OCT. 27, 1998 42 USC 9903. "SEC. 674. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. "(a) IN GENERAL. — There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003 to carry out the provisions of this subtitle (other than sections 681 and 682). "(b) RESERVATIONS.— Of the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve— "(1) V2 of 1 percent for carrying out section 675A (relating to payments for territories); '(2) IV2 percent for activities authorized in sections 678A through 678F, of which— "(A) not less than V2 of the amount reserved by the Secretary under this paragraph shall be distributed directly to eligible entities, organizations, or associations described in section 678A(c)(2) for the purpose of carrying out activities described in section 678A(c); and "(B) V2 of the remainder of the amount reserved by the Secretary under this paragraph shall be used by the Secretary to carry out evaluation and to assist States in carrying out corrective action activities and monitoring (to correct programmatic deficiencies of eligible entities), as described in sections 678B(c) and 678A; and "(3) 9 percent for carrying out section 680 (relating to discretionary activities) and section 678E(b)(2). 42 USC 9904. "SEC. 675. ESTABLISHMENT OF BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. "The Secretary is authorized to establish a community services block grant program and make grants through the program to States to ameliorate the causes of poverty in communities within the States. 42 USC 9905. " SEC. 675A. DISTRIBUTION TO TERRITORIES. "(a) APPORTIONMENT. — The Secretary shall apportion the amount reserved under section 674(b)(1) for each fiscal year on the basis of need among Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. "(b) APPLICATION. —Each jurisdiction to which subsection (a) applies may receive a grant under this section for the amount apportioned under subsection (a) on submitting to the Secretary, and obtaining approval of, an application, containing provisions that describe the programs for which assistance is sought under this section, that is prepared in accordance with, and contains the information described in, section 676. 42 USC 9906. "SEC. 675B. ALLOTMENTS AND PAYMENTS TO STATES. "(a) ALLOTMENTS IN GENERAL.— The Secretary shall, from the amount appropriated under section 674(a) for each fiscal year that remgiins after the Secretary makes the reservations required in section 674(b), allot to each State (subject to section 677) an amount that bears the same ratio to such remaining amount as the amount received by the State for fiscal year 1981 under section 221 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 bore to the total amount received by all States for fiscal year 1981 under such section, except— "(1) that no State shall receive less than V4 of 1 percent of the amount appropriated under section 674(a) for such fiscal year; and
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