 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
             SUBCHAPTER X--PROGRAMS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
 
              Part J--Urban and Rural Education Assistance
 
Sec. 8272. Definitions

    Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this part:

                          (1) Central city

        The term ``central city'' has the same meaning used by the 
    Bureau of the Census.

                  (2) Metropolitan statistical area

        The term ``metropolitan statistical area'' has the same meaning 
    used by the Bureau of the Census.

                          (3) Poverty level

        The term ``poverty level'' means the criteria of poverty used by 
    the Bureau of the Census in compiling the most recent decennial 
    census.

             (4) Rural eligible local educational agency

        The term ``rural eligible local educational agency'' means a 
    local educational agency--
            (A)(i) in which at least 15 percent of the children enrolled 
        in the schools served by such agency are eligible to be counted 
        under part A of subchapter I of this chapter; and
            (ii) which is not in a metropolitan statistical area; or
            (B) in which the total enrollment in the schools served by 
        such agency is less than 2,500 students and that does not serve 
        schools located in a metropolitan statistical area.

             (5) Urban eligible local educational agency

        The term ``urban eligible local educational agency'' means a 
    local educational agency that--
            (A) serves the largest central city in a State;
            (B) enrolls more than 30,000 students and serves a central 
        city with a population of at least 200,000 in a metropolitan 
        statistical area; or
            (C) enrolls between 25,000 and 30,000 students and serves a 
        central city with a population of at least 140,000 in a 
        metropolitan statistical area.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title X, Sec. 10952, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3847.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8297 of this title.
