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112 STAT. 2681-367 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 section 8003(b)(1)(C) of the ESEA, except that the weighted student unit total from its regular basic support payment shall be increased by 35 percent and its learning opportunity threshold percentage shall be deemed to be 100. (d) For each eligible local educational agency, the calculated supplemental basic support payment shall be reduced by subtracting the agency's regular fiscal year 1999 section 8003(b) basic support payment. (e) The actual supplemental basic support payment that local educational agencies receive shall be treated under section 8009 in the same manner as payments under section 8003(f). (f) If the sums described in subsections (a)(1) and (2) above are insufficient to pay in full the calculated supplemental basic support payments for the local educational agencies identified in those subsections, the Secretary shall ratably reduce the supplemental basic support payment to each local educational agency: Provided further, That the Secretary of Education shall treat as timely filed, and shall process for payment, an application for a fiscal year 1998 payment from the local educational agency for Prince Georges County, Maryland, under section 8003 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 if the Secretary has received that application not later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That from the amount appropriated for section 8008 the Secretary shall award $500,000 to the Randolph Field Independent School District, Texas: Provided further. That for the purposes of computing the amount of pa3niient for a local educational agency for children identified under section 8003, children residing in housing initially acquired or constructed under section 801 of the Military Construction Authorization Act of 1984, (Public Law 98-115) ("Build to Lease" program) shall be considered as children described under section 8003(a)(1)(B) if the property described is within the fenced security perimeter of the military facility upon which such housing is situated: Provided further. That if such property is not owned by the Federal Government, is subject to taxation by a State or political subdivision of a State, and thereby generates revenues for a local educational agency which received a payment from the Secretary under section 8003, the Secretary shall: (A) require such local educational agency to provide certification from an appropriate official of the Department of Defense that such property is being used to provide military housing; and (B) reduce the amount of such payment by an amount equal to the amount of revenue from such taxation received in the second preceding fiscal year by such local educationgd agency, unless the amount of such revenue was taken into account by the State for such second preceding fiscal year and already resulted in a reduction in the amount of State aid paid to such local educational agency: Provided further. That of the funds available for payments under section 8002, the Secretary shall pay the San Diego, California, Centennial, Pennsylvania, and Hatboro-Horsham, Pennsylvania, local educational agencies the sum of $500,000 each, in addition to their regularly calculated pa3anents, except that the total funds these agencies receive under this section may not exceed 50 percent of their maximum section 8002 payments.