under titles I, II, and part C of title III, shall be used
for any program authorized under part A of title III.
(4) by striking subsections (d) through (f).
TITLE 
I—VOCATIONAL-TECH-
NICAL 
EDUCATION 
ASSIST-
ANCE TO THE STATES
SEC. 101. ALLOTMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I is amended by striking the
matter preceding the text of section 101 and inserting the
following:
‘‘TITLE 
I—VOCATIONAL-TECH-
NICAL 
EDUCATION 
ASSIST-
ANCE TO THE STATES
‘‘PART A—ALLOTMENT AND ALLOCATION
‘‘SEC. 101. ALLOTMENT.’’.
(b) ALLOTMENT.—
(1) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 101(a)
are amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) SPECIFIC POPULATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In each fiscal year, from
amounts made available under section 3(a), the Sec-
retary shall reserve—
‘‘(A) 1.5 percent to carry out section 103,
of which—
‘‘(i) 1.25 percent shall be available to
carry out section 103(c); and
‘‘(ii) 0.25 percent shall be available to
carry out section 103(i); and
‘‘(B) 0.2 percent for the purpose of carry-
ing out section 101A.
‘‘(2) REMAINDER
OF
FUNDS.—From the re-
mainder of the sums appropriated pursuant to sec-
tion 3, the Secretary shall allot to each State for
each fiscal year—
‘‘(A) an amount which bears the same
ratio to 50 percent of the sums being allotted
as the product of the population aged 15 to 19
inclusive, in the State in the fiscal year preced-
ing the fiscal year for which the determination
is made and the State’s allotment ratio bears to
the sum of the corresponding products for all
the States; and
‘‘(B) an amount which bears the same
ratio to 50 percent of the sums being allotted
as the product of the population aged 20 to 24,
inclusive, in the State in the fiscal year preced-
ing the fiscal year for which the determination
is made and the State’s allotment ratio bears to
the sum of the corresponding products for all
the States.’’.
(2) Paragraph (3) of section 101(a) is amend-
ed—
(A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and
(C);
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B)
and (D) as (A) and (B), respectively;
(C) in subparagraph (A), as redesignated,
by striking clause (i), and inserting the follow-
ing:
‘‘(i) Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law and subject to subparagraph
(B) and clause (ii), no State shall receive
less than 1⁄2 of 1 percent of the amount
available for each such program for each
fiscal year under this subsection.’’; and
(D) in subparagraph (A)(ii), as redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘or part A, B, C, D, or E
of title III’’.
(3) By amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(c) ALLOTMENT RATIO.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The allotment ratio for any
State shall be 1.00 less the product of—
‘‘(A) 0.50; and
‘‘(B) the quotient obtained by dividing the
per capita income for the State by the per cap-
ita income for all the States (exclusive of Puer-
to Rico and the Virgin Islands), except that—
‘‘(i) the allotment ratio in no case
shall be more than 0.55 or less than 0.40;
and
‘‘(ii) the allotment ratio for Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands shall be 0.55.
‘‘(2) ALLOTMENT RATIOS.—The allotment ra-
tios shall be promulgated by the Secretary for each
fiscal year between October 1 and December 31 of
the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which
the determination is made. Allotment ratios shall be
computed on the basis of the average of the appro-
priate per capita incomes for the 3 most recent con-
secutive fiscal years for which satisfactory data are
available.
‘‘(3) DEFINITION.—The term ‘per capita in-
come’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, the total
personal income in the calendar year ending in such
year, divided by the population of the area concerned
in such year.
‘‘(4) POPULATION
DETERMINATION.—For the
purposes of this section, population shall be deter-
mined by the Secretary on the basis of the latest es-
timates available to the Department.’’.
SEC. 101A. THE TERRITORIES.
Section 101A of the Act is amended by inserting after
subsection (c) the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) RESTRICTION.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the
Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau
shall not receive any funds under this part for any fiscal
year that begins after September 30, 2001.’’.
SEC. 102. WITHIN STATE ALLOTMENTS.
Section 102 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘at least’’
and all that follows through the semicolon and
inserting ‘‘an amount equal to not less than 90
percent of the allotment shall be available for
basic programs under part B of title II;’’;
(B) by striking paragraph (2);
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and
(4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively;
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZED PROGRAMS.—Funds made avail-
able under this section shall be used to carry out voca-
tional-technical education programs consistent with the
purposes of this Act.
‘‘(e) GRANT APPLICATION.—In order to receive a
grant under this section an entity described in subsection
(c) shall submit an application to the Secretary and shall
include an assurance that such entity shall comply with
the requirements of this Act.
‘‘(f) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.—The Secretary, in
making grants under subsection (c), shall give special con-
sideration to—
‘‘(1) grants which involve, coordinate with, or
encourage tribal economic development plans; and
‘‘(2) applications from tribally controlled com-
munity colleges which—
‘‘(A) are accredited or are candidates for
accreditation by a nationally recognized accredi-
tation organization as an institution of post-
secondary vocational-technical education; or
‘‘(B) operate vocational-technical education
programs that are accredited or are candidates
for accreditation by a nationally recognized ac-
creditation organization and issue certificates