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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 640c-1. Authorization of appropriations
(a) Construction grants
(1) For the purpose of making construction grants under sections
640a to 640c-3 of this title, there are authorized to be
appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such sums as may
be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
(2) Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for
construction shall, unless otherwise provided in appropriations
Acts, remain available until expended.
(b) Navajo Community College grants
(1) There are authorized to be appropriated for grants to the
Navajo Community College, for each fiscal year, an amount necessary
to pay expenses incurred for -
(A) the maintenance and operation of the college, including -
(i) basic, special, developmental, vocational, technical, and
special handicapped education costs,
(ii) annual capital expenditures, including equipment needs,
minor capital improvements and remodeling projects, physical
plant maintenance and operation costs, and exceptions and
supplemental need account, and
(iii) summer and special interest programs,
(B) major capital improvements, including internal capital
outlay funds and capital improvement projects,
(C) mandatory payments, including payments due on bonds, loans,
notes, or lease purchases, and
(D) supplemental student services, including student housing,
food service, and the provision of access to books and services.
(2) The Secretary shall make payments, pursuant to grants under
this subsection, in advance installments of not less than 40 per
centum of the funds available for allotment, based on anticipated
or actual numbers of full-time equivalent Indian students or such
other factors as determined by the Secretary. Adjustments for
overpayments and underpayments shall be applied to the remainder of
such funds and such remainder shall be delivered no later than July
1 of each year.
(c) Funding requirements
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to
establish by rule procedures to insure that all funds appropriated
under sections 640a to 640c-3 of this title are properly identified
for grants to the Navajo Community College and that such funds are
not commingled with appropriations historically expended by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs for programs and projects normally
provided on the Navajo Reservation for Navajo beneficiaries.
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