Library Services Act: Hearings Before the General Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11823, and Similar Bills to Amend the Library Services Act. Hearings Held in Washington, D.C., June 26, 27, and 29, 1962

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 247 pages
Considers legislation to expand Library Services Act programs to include public and elementary schools, certain colleges and universities, and neighborhoods with inadequate public library facilities.

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Page 7 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. Such promulgation shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning July 1 next succeeding such promulgation...
Page 7 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the continental United States (excluding Alaska), except that (1) the Federal share...
Page 7 - State will be limited to projects under or portions of the State plan not affected by such failure), until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied, the...
Page 3 - State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there Is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Governor or by State law...
Page 9 - Each individual who attends an institute operated under the provisions of this part shall be eligible (after application therefor) to receive a stipend at the rate of $75 per week for the period of his attendance at such institute, and each such individual with one or more dependents shall receive an additional stipend at the rate of $15 per week for each such dependent.
Page 150 - A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ARKANSAS Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, it is with great pleasure that I appear this morning in support of legislation extending the Library Services Act.
Page 5 - Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
Page 7 - State for such period. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Commissioner, the amount so certified. (c) For the purposes of this Section the "Federal share...
Page 5 - Islands. (b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for such fiscal year shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States under...
Page 4 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.

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