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| Public Law 85-620 | Schools. Construction in federally affected areas. |
| Sec. 101 | 64 Stat. 967. 20 U. S. C. 251-255, 271-280. |
| Sec. 101 | 553 |
| Sec. 101 | 554 |
| Sec. 101 | 555 |
| Sec. 101 | 63 Stat. 627. 48 U. S. C. 486 note. |
| Sec. 101 | 556 |
| Sec. 101 | Appropriation. |
| Sec. 101 | 559 |
| Sec. 201 | Federal acquisition of real property.
64 Stat. 1101. 20 U. S. C. 237. |
| Sec. 201 | 48 Stat. 596. |
| Sec. 204 | 560 |
| Sec. 204 | Transfer and availability of appropriations. |
| Sec. 204 | 48 Stat. 596; 49 Stat. 1458. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
The Act of September 23, 1950 (Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress), as amended, is amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 10. In the case of children who it is estimated by the Commissioner in any fiscal year will reside on Federal property at the end of the next fiscal year—
"(1) if no tax revenues of the State or any political subdivision thereof may be expended for the free public education of such children; or
"(2) if it is the judgment of the Commissioner, after he has consulted with the appropriate State educational agency, that no local educational agency is able to provide suitable free public education for such children, the Commissioner shall make arrangements for constructing or otherwise providing the minimum school facilities necessary for the education of such children. To the maximum extent practicable school facilities provided under this section shall be comparable to minimum school facilities provided for children in comparable communities in the State. This section shall not apply (A) to children who reside on Federal property under the control of the Atomic Energy Commission, and (B) to Indian children attending federally operated Indian schools. Whenever it is necessary for the Commissioner to provide school facilities for children residing on Federal property under this section, the membership of such children may not be included in computing
under section 5 the maximum on the total of the payments for any local educational agency.
"SEC. 13.
"(b) All Federal departments or agencies administering Federal property on which children reside, and all such departments
or agencies principally responsible for Federal activities which may give rise to a need for the construction of school facilities,
shall to the maximum extent practicable, comply with requests of the Commissioner for information he may require in carrying
out the purposes of this Act.
"(c) No appropriation to any department or agency of the United States, other than an appropriation to carry out this Act, shall be available for the same purpose as this Act; except that nothing in this subsection shall affect the availability of appropriations authorized, prior to September 23, 1950, for the construction of school facilities to be attended by Indian children or appropriations (1) for the construction of school facilities on Federal property under the control of the Atomic Energy Commission, (2) for the construction of school facilities which are to be federally operated for Indian children, or (3) for the construction of school facilities under the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949.
"SEC. 14. (a) If the Commissioner determines with respect to any local educational agency that—
"(1) such agency is providing or, upon completion of the school facilities for which provision is made herein, will provide free public education for children who reside on Federal property, and whose membership in the schools of such agency has not formed and will not form the basis for payments under other provisions of this Act, and that the total number of such children represents a substantial percentage of the total number of children for whom such agency provides free public education or that the total number of such children who reside on Indian lands located outside the school district of such agency equals or exceeds 100;
"(2) the immunity of such Federal property to taxation by such agency has created a substantial and continuing impairment of its ability to finance needed school facilities;
"(3) such agency is making a reasonable tax effort and is exercising due diligence in availing itself of State and other financial assistance available for the purpose; and
"(4) such agency does not have sufficient funds available to it from other Federal, State, and local sources to provide the minimum school facilities required for free public education in its school district, he may provide the additional assistance necessary to enable such agency to provide such facilities, upon such terms and in such amounts (subject to the provisions of this section) as the Commissioner may consider to be in the public interest; but such additional assistance may not exceed the portion of the cost of such facilities which the Commissioner estimates is attributable to children who reside on Federal property, and which has not been, and is not to be, recovered by the local educational agency from other sources, including payments by the United States under any other provisions of this
Act or any other law. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the Commissioner may waive the percentage requirement in paragraph (1) in the case of any application for additional assistance on account of children who reside on Indian lands whenever, in his judgment, exceptional circumstances exist which make such action necessary to avoid inequity and avoid defeating the purposes of this section. Assistance may be furnished under this subsection without regard to paragraph (2) (but subject to the other provisions of this subsection and subsection (c)) to any local educational agency which provides free public education for children who reside on Indian lands located outside its school district. For purposes of this subsection 'Indian lands' means Indian reservations or other real property referred to in the third sentence of section 15 (1).
"(b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1961, such sums, not to exceed $40,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administration of such provisions. Amounts so appropriated, other than amounts appropriated for administration, shall remain available until expended, except that after June 30, 1961, no agreement may be made to extend assistance under this section.
"(c) No payment may be made to any local educational agency under subsection (a) except upon application therefor which is submitted through the appropriate State educational agency and is filed with the Commissioner in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, and which meets the requirements of section 6 (b) (1). In determining the order in which such applications shall be approved, the Commissioner shall consider the relative educational and financial needs of the local educational agencies which have submitted approvable applications and the nature and extent of the Federal responsibility. No payment may be made under subsection (a) unless the Commissioner finds, after consultation with the State and local educational agencies, that the project or projects with respect to which it is made are not inconsistent with over-all State plans for the construction of school facilities. All determinations made by the Commissioner under this section shall be made only after consultation with the appropriate State educational agency and the local educational agency.
"(d) Amounts paid by the Commissioner to local educational agencies under subsection (a) may be paid in advance of, or by way of reimbursement for, work performed or purchases made pursuant to the agreement with the Commissioner under this section, and may be paid in such installments as the Commissioner may determine. Any funds paid to a local educational agency and not expended or otherwise used for the purposes for which paid shall be repaid to the Treasury of the United States.
"(e) None of the provisions of sections 1 to 10, both inclusive, other than section 6 (b) (1), shall apply with respect to determinations made under this section.
"SEC. 15. For the purposes of this Act—
"(1) The term 'Federal property' means real property which is owned by the United States or is leased by the United States,
and which is not subject to taxation by any State or any political subdivision of a State or by the District of Columbia.
Such term includes real property which is owned by the United States and leased therefrom and the improvements thereon, even
though the lessee's interest, or any improvement on such property, is subject to taxation by a State or a political subdivision
of a State or by the District of Columbia. Except for the purposes of section 10, such term also includes (A) real property
held in trust by the United States for individual Indians or
Indian tribes, and real property held by individual Indians or Indian tribes which is subject to restrictions on alienation imposed by the United States,...
(a) Section 2 (a) of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), as amended, is amended by striking out "the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1950, or for any of the seven succeeding fiscal years" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "any fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1961".
(b) Paragraph (1) of section 2 (b) of such Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ", but shall not include payments pursuant to contract or other arrangement under section 1 of the Act of April 16, 1934, commonly referred to as the Johnson-O'Malley Act (25 U. S. C., sec. 452)".
Subsection (d) of section 8 of such Act is amended—
(2) by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ", or the availability of appropriations under the Act of April 16, 1934, commonly referred to as the Johnson-O'Malley Act (25 U. S. C., sec. 452)".
Approved, August 12, 1958.
