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    16 USC Sec. 470c                                            01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1A - HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
    SUBCHAPTER II - NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
    Part A - Programs

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    Sec. 470c. Apportionment of grant funds

STATUTE

    (a) Basis for apportionment
      The amounts appropriated and made available for grants to the
    States for the purposes of this subchapter shall be apportioned
    among the States by the Secretary on the basis of needs as
    determined by him.
    (b) Basis; notification to State; reapportionment
      The amounts appropriated and made available for grants to the
    States for projects and programs under this subchapter for each
    fiscal year shall be apportioned among the States as the Secretary
    determines to be appropriate.
      The Secretary shall notify each State of its apportionment under
    this subsection within thirty days following the date of enactment
    of legislation appropriating funds under this subchapter. Any
    amount of any apportionment that has not been paid or obligated by
    the Secretary during the fiscal year in which such notification is
    given, and for two fiscal years thereafter, shall be reapportioned
    by the Secretary in accordance with this subsection. The Secretary
    shall analyze and revise as necessary the method of apportionment.
    Such method and any revision thereof shall be published by the
    Secretary in the Federal Register.
    (c) Transfer of funds to local governments
      A minimum of 10 per centum of the annual apportionment
    distributed by the Secretary to each State for the purposes of
    carrying out this subchapter shall be transferred by the State,
    pursuant to the requirements of this subchapter, to local
    governments which are certified under section 470a(c) of this title
    for historic preservation projects or programs of such local
    governments. In any year in which the total annual apportionment to
    the States exceeds $65,000,000, one half of the excess shall also
    be transferred by the States to local governments certified
    pursuant to section 470a(c) of this title.
    (d) Guidelines for use and distribution of funds to local
      governments
      The Secretary shall establish guidelines for the use and
    distribution of funds under subsection (c) of this section to
    insure that no local government receives a disproportionate share
    of the funds available, and may include a maximum or minimum
    limitation on the amount of funds distributed to any single local
    government. The guidelines shall not limit the ability of any State
    to distribute more than 10 per centum of its annual apportionment
    under subsection (c) of this section, nor shall the Secretary
    require any State to exceed the 10 per centum minimum distribution
    to local governments.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 89-665, title I, Sec. 103, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 916;
    Pub. L. 94-422, title II, Sec. 201(2), Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat.
    1319; Pub. L. 96-515, title II, Sec. 203, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat.
    2993; Pub. L. 102-575, title XL, Sec. 4010, Oct. 30, 1992, 106
    Stat. 4759; Pub. L. 106-208, Sec. 5(a)(6), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat.
    318.)

AMENDMENTS

      2000 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-208 substituted "purposes of this
    subchapter" for "purposes this subchapter" and "determined by him."
    for "determined by him:.".
      1992 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-575, Sec. 4010(1), substituted
    "for the purposes this subchapter" for "for comprehensive statewide
    historic surveys and plans under this subchapter".
      Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-575, Sec. 4010(2), (3), substituted "as
    the Secretary determines to be appropriate" for "by the Secretary
    in accordance with needs as disclosed in approved statewide
    historic preservation plans" and inserted at end "The Secretary
    shall analyze and revise as necessary the method of apportionment.
    Such method and any revision thereof shall be published by the
    Secretary in the Federal Register."
      1980 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-515, Sec. 203(a), inserted "and
    programs" after "projects" and substituted provision directing the
    Secretary to notify each State of its apportionment under this
    subsection within thirty days following enactment of legislation
    appropriating funds for provision directing the Secretary to notify
    each State of its apportionment, with the amounts available
    thereafter for payment to such State.
      Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 96-515, Sec. 203(b), added subsecs.
    (c) and (d).
      1976 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-422, which directed amendment of
    subsec. (a) by deleting "Provided, however, That the amount granted
    to any one State shall not exceed 50 per centum of the total cost
    of the comprehensive statewide historic survey and plan for that
    State, as determined by the Secretary," after "determined by him:",
    was executed by deleting the quoted language, which did not contain
    a comma after "Secretary", to reflect the probable intent of
    Congress.