§ 7710. — Federal administration.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC7710]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
SCHOOLS
SUBCHAPTER VIII--IMPACT AID
Sec. 7710. Federal administration
(a) Payments in whole dollar amounts
The Secretary shall round any payments under this subchapter to the
nearest whole dollar amount.
(b) Other agencies
Each Federal agency administering Federal property on which children
reside, and each agency principally responsible for an activity that may
occasion assistance under this subchapter, shall, to the maximum extent
practicable, comply with requests of the Secretary for information the
Secretary may require to carry out this subchapter.
(c) Special rules
(1) Certain children eligible under subparagraphs (A) and
(G)(ii) of section 7703(a)(1)
(A) The Secretary shall treat as eligible under subparagraph (A)
of section 7703(a)(1) of this title any child who would be eligible
under such subparagraph except that the Federal property on which
the child resides or on which the child's parent is employed is not
in the same State in which the child attends school, if such child
meets the requirements of paragraph (3) \1\ of this subsection.
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\1\ So in original. Probably should be paragraph ``(2)''.
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(B) The Secretary shall treat as eligible under subparagraph (G)
of section 7703(a)(1) of this title any child who would be eligible
under such subparagraph except that such child does not meet the
requirements of clause (ii) of such subparagraph, if such child
meets the requirements of paragraph (3) \1\ of this subsection.
(2) Requirements
A child meets the requirements of this paragraph if--
(A) such child resides--
(i) in a State adjacent to the State in which the local
educational agency serving the school such child attends is
located; or
(ii) with a parent employed on Federal property in a
State adjacent to the State in which such agency is located;
(B) the schools of such agency are within a more reasonable
commuting distance of such child's home than the schools of the
local educational agency that serves the school attendance area
where such child resides;
(C) attending the schools of the local educational agency
that serves the school attendance area where such child resides
will impose a substantial hardship on such child;
(D) the State in which such child attends school provides
funds for the education of such child on the same basis as all
other public school children in the State, unless otherwise
permitted under section 7709(b) of this title; and
(E) such agency received a payment for fiscal year 1999
under section 7703(b) of this title on behalf of children
described in paragraph (1).
(Pub. L. 89-10, title VIII, Sec. 8010, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title
I, Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3767; amended Pub. L. 106-398,
Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVIII, Sec. 1813], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat.
1654, 1654A-387.)
Amendments
2000--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title
XVIII, Sec. 1813(1), (2)], redesignated par. (2) as (1) and struck out
heading and text of former par. (1). Text read as follows:
``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any fiscal year before
fiscal year 1995, the Secretary shall treat as eligible under subsection
(a) or (b) of section 3 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law
874, 81st Congress) (as such subsection was in effect on the day
preceding October 20, 1994), and shall forgive the obligation of a local
educational agency to repay any amounts that such agency received under
such section for such fiscal year based on, any child who would be
eligible under such subsections except that such child does not meet the
requirements of subsection (a)(1)(B) or (b)(2)(B), respectively, of such
section 3, if such child meets the requirements of paragraph (3) of this
subsection.''
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVIII,
Sec. 1813(2)], redesignated par. (3) as (2). Former par. (2)
redesignated (1).
Subsec. (c)(2)(D). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVIII,
Sec. 1813(3)(A)], struck out ``section 5(d)(2) of the Act of September
30, 1950 (Public Law 874, 81st Congress) (as such section was in effect
on the day preceding October 20, 1994) or'' after ``otherwise permitted
under''.
Subsec. (c)(2)(E). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVIII,
Sec. 1813(3)(B)], substituted ``1999'' for ``1994'', struck out ``(or
such section's predecessor authority)'' after ``section 7703(b) of this
title'', and substituted ``paragraph (1)'' for ``paragraph (2)''.
Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVIII,
Sec. 1813(2)], redesignated par. (3) as (2).
