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(14) recommendations for necessary transitional requirements in the event that funding for such program is discontinued, including proposals for such executives or legislative action as may be necessary to prevent such discontinuation from being unduly disruptive.

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PART C-LOW-INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1981

OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1981

[Public Law 97-35, as Amended]

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TITLE XXVI-LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 2601. This title may be cited as the "Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981".

HOME ENERGY GRANTS AUTHORIZED

SEC. 2602. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to make grants, in accordance with the provisions of this title, to States to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy.

(b) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this title $2,140,000,000 for the fiscal year 1985, and $2,275,000,000 for the fiscal year 1986.

(42 U.S.C. 8621) Enacted August 13, 1981, P.L. 97-35, 95 Stat. 893; amended October 30, 1984, P.L. 98-558, sec. 601.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2603. As used in this title:

(1) The term "energy crisis" means weather-related and supply shortage emergencies and other household energy-related emergencies.

(2) the term "household" means any individual or group of individuals who are living together as one economic unit for whom residential energy is customarily purchased in common or who make undesignated payments for energy in the form of rent.

(3) the term "home energy" means a source of heating or cooling in residential dwellings.

(4) The term "poverty level" means, with respect to a household in any State, the income poverty line as prescribed and revised at least annually pursuant to section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, as applicable to such State. (5) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

(6) The term "State" means each of the several States and the District of Columbia.

(7) The term "State median income" means the State median income promulgated by the Secretary in accordance with procedures established under section 2002(a)(6) of the Social Security Act (as such procedures were in effect on the day before

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