# § 2502. Funding requirements
**1** **Authorization of appropriations** [^1]
There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this subchapter $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. The provisions of section 1226a of this title shall not apply to the authorization made by this subsection.
See References in Text note below.
**(b)** **Availability of amounts appropriated; allotments to States, etc.**
**(1)** From the sums appropriated under this subchapter, the Secretary of Education shall reserve an amount not to exceed $2,000,000, for the purpose of carrying out section 2505 of this title.
**(2)** From the remainder of the sums appropriated under this subchapter, the Secretary of Education shall reserve such amount, not to exceed 1 per centum thereof, as he may determine necessary and shall allot such amount among the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, according to their relative need for assistance under this subchapter.
**(3)**
**(A)** Of the remainder of the sums appropriated, the Secretary of Education shall allot to each State $100,000, and of the remainder of the sums appropriated the Secretary of Education shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such sums for such year as the population of the State bears to the population of all States, for purposes of carrying out section 2501 of this title.
**(B)** For purposes of this paragraph, the term “State” means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
**(c)** **Federal share** The Federal share of funds allotted to States under this subchapter shall not exceed 80 per centum of the total cost of the planning undertaken pursuant to this subchapter.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 94–482, title III, § 332, Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2222; Pub. L. 95–207, § 16, Dec. 13, 1977, 91 Stat. 1474; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 677, 692.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original a reference to section 414 of the General Education Provisions Act. Section 414 of that Act was renumbered as section 422 by , , , and is classified to .
### Amendments
1977—Subsec. (b)(2). , substituted “1 per centum” for “3 per centum” and struck out “the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,” after “shall allot such amount among”.
Subsec. (b)(3)(B). , substituted “, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico” for “and the District of Columbia”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date
Section effective 30 days after , except either as specifically otherwise provided or, if not so specifically otherwise provided, effective , where section provides for authorization of appropriations, see , set out as an Effective Date of 1976 Amendment note under .
### Repeals
The directory language of, but not the amendment made by, , , , cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by , , , effective .
### Transfer of Functions
“Secretary of Education” substituted for “Commissioner of Education” and “Commissioner” in subsecs. (b)(1), (2), and (3)(A) pursuant to sections 301(a)(1) and 507 of , which are classified to sections 3441(a)(1) and 3507 of this title and which transferred functions of Commissioner of Education to Secretary of Education.
## Executive Documents
### Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding , Territories and Insular Possessions.