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STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW
90-103-OCT.
11, 196i7
planning within such areas in the Appalachian region, and for planning for Appalachian regional programs." (b) The proviso of the first sentence of section 701(b) of the Housing Act of 1954 is amended by inserting after "States" the words "and local development districts". SEC. 116. Section 214 of the Act is amended to read as follows:
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40 USC app. 214.
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" S U P P L E M E N T S TO FEDERAL G R A N T - I N - A I D PROGRAMS
"SEC. 214. (a) I n order to enable the people, States, and local communities of the region, including local development districts, to take maximum advantage of Federal grant-in-aid programs (as hereinafter defined) for which they are eligible but for which, because of their economic situation, they cannot supply the required matching share, the President is authorized to provide funds to the Federal Cochairman to be used for the sole purpose of increasing the Federal contribution to projects under Federal grant-in-aid programs, as hereafter .: j^.^ •• defined, above the fixed maximum portion of the cost of such projects otherwise authorized by the applicable law. Funds shall be so provided for Federal grant-in-aid programs for which funds are available under the Acts authorizing such programs and shall be available without regard to any appropriation authorization ceilings in such Acts. Any finding, report, certification, or documentation required to be submitted to the head of the department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government responsible for the administration of any Federal grant-in-aid program shall be accepted by the Federal Cochairman with respect to a supplemental grant for any project under such program. " (b) The Federal portion of such costs shall not be increased in excess of the percentages established by the Commission, and shall in no event exceed 80 per centum thereof. "(c) The term 'Federal grant-in-aid programs' as used in this section inllld t^o^am^s"" means those Federal grant-in-aid programs authorized by this Act for the construction or equipment of facilities, and all other Federal grantin-aid programs authorized on or before December 31, 1967, by Acts other than this Act for the acquisition of land or the construction or equipment of facilities, including but not limited to grant-in-aid programs authorized by the following Acts: Federal Water Pollution Control Act; Watershed Protection and Flood Pevention Act; title ^g^uscf^00^1^11"°**' VI of the Public Health Service Act; Vocational Education Act of 42 USC 291; "° *' 1963; Library Services Act; Federal Airport Act; part IV of title III 20 USC 35 note, of the Communications Act of 1934; Higher Education Facilities Act?iJi"notLM7 USC of 1963; Land and Water Conservation F u n d Act of 1965; National 390-397; 20 USC Defense Education Act of 1958. The term shall not include (A) the lHu'^ltl^^ 2"^^ program for the construction of the development highway system use 401 note. authorized by section 201 of this Act or any other program relating "*"**' ^' ^^®* to highway or road construction, or (B) any other program for which loans or other Federal financial assistance, except a grant-in-aid program, is authorized by this or any other Act. " (d) Not to exceed $97,000,000 of the funds authorized in section 401 of this Act for the two-fiscal-year period ending June 30, 1969, P°^*' P- 266. shall be available to carry out this section." SEC. 117. (a) The first sentence of section 221 of the Act, entitled H ulc ipp. "MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT", is amended by striking out "exclusive of 221. Federal funds," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "exclusive of expenditures for participation in the National Svstem of Interstate and Defense Highways, and exclusive of local funds and Federal funds,".
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