1995 US Code
Title 20 - EDUCATION
CHAPTER 16 - PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION
Sec. 355e-1 - Federal share

Funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (3) of section 351b(a) of this title shall be available for grants to States from allotments under paragraphs (1) and (3) of section 351c(a) of this title for the purpose of carrying out the Federal share of the cost of carrying out State plans submitted and approved under section 355e–2 of this title. Such grants shall be used (1) for planning for, and taking other steps leading to the development of, cooperative library networks; (2) for establishing, expanding, and operating local, regional, and interstate cooperative networks of libraries, which provided for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of school, public, academic, and special libraries and information centers for improved supplementary services for the special clientele served by each type of library or center; and (3) developing the technological capacity of libraries for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the Federal share shall be 100 per centum of the cost of carrying out the State plan.

(June 19, 1956, ch. 407, title III, §302, as added and amended July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–511, §§9, 12(a), 80 Stat. 314, 318; Dec. 30, 1970, Pub. L. 91–600, §2(b), 84 Stat. 1669; Mar. 15, 1990, Pub. L. 101–254, §16(d), 104 Stat. 106.)

1990—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 101–254 added cl. (3).

1970—Pub. L. 91–600 substituted provisions relating to purposes which funds granted to States could be used for, for provisions setting forth amount of allotments authorized to be made by Commissioner to States, Guam, etc. See section 351c of this title.

1966—Pub. L. 89–511, §12(a), inserted reference to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Amendment by Pub. L. 101–254 effective Oct. 1, 1990, see section 25 of Pub. L. 101–254, set out as a note under section 351a of this title.

Amendment by Pub. L. 91–600 effective after June 30, 1971, see section 2(c)(1) of Pub. L. 91–600, set out as a note under section 351 of this title.

Amendment by section 12(a) of Pub. L. 89–511 effective with respect to fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1966, see section 12(c) of Pub. L. 89–511, set out as a note under section 353 of this title.

This section is referred to in section 355e–2 of this title.