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Appropriation.
"State."
State allotments.
Unobligated amounts, reallotment.
PUBLIC LAW 92-255~MAR. 21, 1972
[86 STAT.
§ 409. Formula grants. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $45,000,000 for t5he fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, for grants to States in accordance with this section. For the purpose of this section, the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in addition to the fifty States. (b) Grants to States may be made under this section (1) for the preparation of plans which are intended to meet the requirements of subsection (e) of this section; (2) for the expenses (other than State administrative exiDenses) of (A) carrying out projects under and otherwise implementing plans approved by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of this section, and (B) evaluating the results of such plans as actually implemented; and (3) for the State administrative expenses of carrying out plans approved by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of this section, except that no grant under this paragraph to any State for any year may exceed $50,000 or 10 ^)er centum of the total allotment of that State for that year, whichever is less. (c)(1) For each fiscal year the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, allot the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) for such year among the States on the basis of the relative population, financial need, and the need for more effective conduct of drug abuse prevention functions, except that no such allotment to any State (other than the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), shall be less than $100,000 multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the amount actually appropnated for the purposes of this section for the fiscal year for which the allotment is made, and whose denominator is the amount authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a) for that year. (2) Any amount allotted under paragraph (1) of this subsection to a State (other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa. Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State, for the purjxyses for which made, for the next fiscal year (and for such year only), and any such amount shall be in addition to the amounts allotted to such State for such purpose for such next fiscal year; except that any such amount, remaining unobligated at the end of the sixth month following the end of such year for which it was allotted, which the Secretary detei^mines will remain imobligated by the close of such next fiscal year, may be reallotted by the Secretary to be available for the purposes for which made until the close of such next fiscal year, to other States which have need therefor, on such basis as the Secretary deems equitable and consistent with the purposes of this section, and any amount so reallotted to a State shall be in addition to the amounts allotted and available to the States for the same period. Any amount allotted under paragraph (1) of this subsection to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to it. for the purposes for which made, for the next two fiscal years (and for such years only), and any such amount shall be in addition to the amounts allotted to it for such purpose for each of such next two fiscal years: except that any such amount, remaining unobligated at the end of the first of such next two years, which the Secretary determines will remain unobligated at the close of the second of such next two years, may be reallotted by the Secretary, to be available for the purposes for which made until the close of
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