PUBLIC LAW 106-402—OCT. 30, 2000 114 STAT. 1713 (ii) to any State not described in clause (i) may not be less than $200,000; or (B) the total amount appropriated under section 145 for a fiscal year is less than $20,000,000, the allotment under paragraph (1) for such fiscal year— (i) to each of American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands may not be less than $80,000; and (ii) to any State not described in clause (i) may not be less than $150,000. (3) REDUCTION OF ALLOTMENT. — Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), if the aggregate of the amounts to be allotted to the States pursuant to such paragraphs for any fiscal year exceeds the total amount appropriated for such allotments under section 145 for such fiscal year, the amount to be allotted to each State for such fiscal year shall be proportionately reduced. (4) INCREASE IN ALLOTMENTS.— In any year in which the total amount appropriated under section 145 for a fiscal year exceeds the total amount appropriated under such section (or a corresponding provision) for the preceding fiscal year by a percentage greater than the most recent percentage change in the Consumer Price Index published by the Secretary of Labor under section 100(c)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 720(c)(1)) (if the percentage change indicates an increase), the Secretary shall increase each of the minimum allotments described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2). The Secretary shall increase each minimum allotment by an amount that bears the same ratio to the amount of such minimum allotment (including any increases in such minimum allotment under this paragraph (or a corresponding provision) for prior fiscal years) as the amount that is equal to the dif- ference between— (A) the total amount appropriated under section 145 for the fiscal year for which the increase in the minimum allotment is being made; minus (B) the total amount appropriated under section 145 (or a corresponding provision) for the immediately preceding fiscal year, bears to the total amount appropriated under section 145 (or a corresponding provision) for such preceding fiscal year. (5) MONITORING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SYSTEM. — In a State in which the system is housed in a State agency, the State may use not more than 5 percent of any allotment under this subsection for the costs of monitoring the administration of the system required under section 143(a). (6) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND AMERICAN INDDSLN CONSOR- TIUM. —In any case in which the total amount appropriated under section 145 for a fiscal year is more than $24,500,000, the Secretary shall— (A) use not more than 2 percent of the amount appropriated to provide technical assistance to eligible systems with respect to activities carried out under this subtitle (consistent with requests by such systems for such assistance for the year); and
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