Public Law 86–679

That section 3 of the Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 352) is amended by striking out “four succeeding fiscal years” and inserting in lieu thereof “nine succeeding fiscal years”.

Sec. 2.

Section 4 of the Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 353) is amended by striking out subsection (b) and by striking “(a)” after “Sec. 4.”.

Sec. 3.

Section 6(c) of the Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 355(c)) is amended to read as follows:

“(c)“(c)

For the purposes of this section the ‘Federal share’ for any

“Federal share”.

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 all the States (excluding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands), except that (1) the Federal share shall in no case be more than 66 per centum or less than 33 per centum, and (2) the Federal share for Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands shall be 66 per centum.”

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Sec. 4.

Section 6(d) of the Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 355(d)) is amended by inserting “(1)” after “(d)”, by striking out “the States and of the continental United States (excluding Alaska)” and inserting in lieu thereof “each of the States and of all of the States (excluding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands),” and by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:

“(2)“(2)

Promulgations made before satisfactory data are available

Promulgations.

from the Department of Commerce for a full year on the per capita income of Alaska shall prescribe a Federal share for Alaska of 66 per centum and, for purposes of such promulgations, Alaska shall not be included in determining the per capita income of all of the States. Promulgations made thereafter but before per capita income data for Alaska for a full three-year period are available from the Depart-ment of Commerce shall be based on satisfactory data available there-from for Alaska for such one full year, or, when such data are available for a two-year period, for such two years.”

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Sec. 5.

Section 9(a) of the Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 358 (a)) is amended by striking out “Alaska, Hawaii,”.

Sec. 6.

The amendments made by section 2 of this Act shall be effective in the case of allotments from sums appropriated under

20 USC 352.

section 3 of the Library Services Act for any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1961, except that no payment shall be made to any State from its allotment under section 4 of such Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, until its allotment for any preceding year has been exhausted or ceased to be available. The amendments made by sections 3 and 4 of this Act shall be effective in the case of promulgations of Federal shares under the Library Services Act made after the enactment of this Act.