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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 1354

PUBLIC LAW 96-369—OCT. 1, 1980

activities of the Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration for "Special benefits" and "Black Lung Disability Trust Fund"; Veterans Administration "Compensation and pensions"; and Veterans Administration "Readjustment benefits", (f) Such amounts as may be necessary for Department of Energy, Operating Expenses, Energy Supply, Research and Development Activities, to carry out the breeder reactor demonstration project or project alternative approved by Congress in authorizing legislation, and for no other purpose, at the current rate of operations notwithstanding the provisions of section 102(a) and (b) of this joint resolution. Cuban and (g) Notwithstanding section 15(a) of the Act entitled "An Act to enTrants provide Certain basic authority for the Department of State", 22 USC 2680. approved August 1, 1956, as amended, and section 10 of Public Law 22 USC 2412. 91-672, activities of the Department of State to process, maintain, return or resettle Cuban and Haitian entrants shall be funded at not to exceed an annual rate provided in the budget estimate. (h) Notwithstanding section 101(a) of this joint resolution, $1,850,000,000 shall be available to continue the low income energy assistance program under the State allocations provided for in H.R. 7998 as passed the House of Representatives August 27, 1980, and in House Report 96-1244, except that the sum of $50,000,000 shall be reserved for payments to any State which would receive under the above formula an amount less than 75 per centum of the amount it would have received under the State allocation formula for lowincome energy assistance as provided in the regulations published on May 30, 1980 in volume 45, No. 106, Federal Register, pages 36810-36838, such payments to be the amount necessary for the allocations to those States to be equal to 75 per centum of their allocation under such regulations; the energy assistance program shall be continued under the terms and conditions of such regulations and any non-formula amendments thereto, except that an eligible household shall also include any single person household at or below 125 per centum of poverty: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used to provide assistance either in cash or in kind to any household during fiscal year 1981 which exceeds a value of $750, except this $750 limitation may be waived by the Secretary of Health and Human Services upon request of a State, (i) Such amounts as may be necessary for projects and activities provided for in the Energy and Water Development Appropriation Ante, p. 1331. Act, 1981 (H.R. 7590), at a rate of operations, and to the extent and in the manner provided for in such Act as adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate on September 24, 1980, notwithstanding section 102(c) of this joint resolution: Provided, That appropriations and funds made available to the Appalachian Regional Commission, including the Appalachian Regional Development Programs, by this or any other Act shall be used by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of the applicable appropriation Act 40 USC app. 1. and pursuant to the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, 40 USC app. 405. as amended, notwithstanding the provisions of section 405 of said Act. (j) Funds available under the provisions of this section for child nutrition programs of the Department of Agriculture may be used to pay valid claims submitted in fiscal year 1981 for meals served in September, 1980. (k) Such amounts as may be necessary to continue activities of the National Health Service Corps under section 338(a) of the Public