An amendment numbered 5 printed in House Report 110-678 to require a local educational agency to use American steel and iron for modernization, renovation, or repair projects at a public school facility. Includes waivers if iron and steel are not produced in the U.S. in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and if iron and steel produced in the U.S. will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25 percent.

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   Change 1: Replaces “308(a)” with “309(a)”

   ReplacesPage 6, line 3Printed page

   [struck: 308(a)][inserted: 309(a)]

   Original wording

   Page 6, line 3, strike “308(a)” and insert “309(a)”.

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   Change 2: Replaces “308(b)” with “309(b)”

   ReplacesPage 10, line 14Printed page

   In H.R. 3021 · Reported in House

   SEC. 202. ALLOCATION TO STATES.

   (a) State-by-State Allocation.--Of the amount appropriated to carry out this title for each fiscal year pursuant to section [struck: 308][inserted: 309](b), the Secretary shall allocate to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama an amount equal to the number of schools in each of those States that were closed for 60 days or more during the period beginning on August 29, 2005, and ending on December 31, 2005, due to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, relative to the number of schools in all of those States combined that were so closed.

   (b) State Administration.--A State that receives funds under this title may reserve one-half of one percent of such funds for administrative purposes related to this title.

   Original wording

   Page 10, line 14, strike “308(b)” and insert “309(b)”.

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   Change 3: Adds SEC. 305. SPECIAL RULE ON USE OF IRON AND STEEL PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES on page 13, line 2

   Adds a sectionPrinted page

   Inserted: SEC. 305. SPECIAL RULE ON USE OF IRON AND STEEL PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--A local educational agency shall not obligate or expend funds received under this Act for a project for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facility unless all of the iron and steel used in such project is produced in the United States.

   Inserted: (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply in any case in which the local educational agency finds that--

   Inserted: (1) their application would be inconsistent with the public interest;

   Inserted: (2) iron and steel are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality;

   Inserted: (3) inclusion of iron and steel produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project contract by more than 25 percent.

   Original wording

   Page 13, after line 2, insert the following (and redesignate provisions and conform the table of contents accordingly):

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