 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
             SUBCHAPTER X--PROGRAMS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
 
              Part J--Urban and Rural Education Assistance
 
                  subpart 2--rural education initiative
 
Sec. 8296. Ratable reductions in case of insufficient 
        appropriations
        

(a) In general

    If the amount appropriated for any fiscal year and made available 
for grants under this subpart is insufficient to pay the full amount for 
which all agencies are eligible under this subpart, the Secretary shall 
ratably reduce each such amount.

(b) Additional amounts

    If additional funds become available for making payments under 
paragraph (1) for such fiscal year, payments that were reduced under 
subsection (a) of this section shall be increased on the same basis as 
such payments were reduced.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title X, Sec. 10977, as added Pub. L. 106-554, 
Sec. 1(a)(1) [title IX, Sec. 901], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-
92.)
