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isting facilities planned for adaptive reuse as public 
charter school facilities. 
(10) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Education. 
(11) The term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 
States, the District of Columbia, and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico. 
CHAPTER 1—GRANTS FOR MODERNIZA-
TION, RENOVATION, OR REPAIR OF 
PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES 
SEC. 311. PURPOSE. 
Grants under this chapter shall be for the purpose of 
modernizing, renovating, or repairing public school facili-
ties (including early learning facilities, as appropriate), 
based on the need of the facilities for such improvements, 
to ensure that public school facilities are safe, healthy, high- 
performing, and technologically up-to-date. 
SEC. 312. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. 
(a) RESERVATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—From the amount appro-
priated to carry out this chapter for each fiscal year 
pursuant to section 345(a), the Secretary shall reserve 
2 percent of such amount, consistent with the purpose 
described in section 311— 
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(A) to provide assistance to the outlying 
areas; and 
(B) for payments to the Secretary of the In-
terior to provide assistance to Bureau-funded 
schools. 
(2) USE OF RESERVED FUNDS.—In each fiscal 
year, the amount reserved under paragraph (1) shall 
be divided between the uses described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph in the same 
proportion as the amount reserved under section 
1121(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6331(a)) is divided between 
the uses described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such 
section 1121(a) in such fiscal year. 
(3) DISTRESSED
AREAS
AND
NATURAL
DISAS-
TERS.—From the amount appropriated to carry out 
this chapter for each fiscal year pursuant to section 
345(a), the Secretary shall reserve 5 percent of such 
amount for grants to— 
(A) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas with significant economic distress, 
to be used consistent with the purpose described 
in section 311 and the allowable uses of funds 
described in section 313; and 
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(B) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas recovering from a natural disaster, 
to be used consistent with the purpose described 
in section 321 and the allowable uses of funds 
described in section 323. 
(b) ALLOCATION TO STATES.— 
(1) 
STATE-BY-STATE
ALLOCATION.—Of 
the 
amount appropriated to carry out this chapter for 
each fiscal year pursuant to section 345(a), and not 
reserved under subsection (a), each State shall be allo-
cated an amount in proportion to the amount re-
ceived by all local educational agencies in the State 
under part A of title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 
seq.) for the previous fiscal year relative to the total 
amount received by all local educational agencies in 
every State under such part for such fiscal year. 
(2) STATE ADMINISTRATION.—A State may re-
serve up to 1 percent of its allocation under para-
graph (1) to carry out its responsibilities under this 
chapter, which include— 
(A) providing technical assistance to local 
educational agencies; 
(B) developing an online, publicly search-
able database that includes an inventory of pub-
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lic school facilities in the State, including for 
each such facility, its design, condition, mod-
ernization, renovation and repair needs, utiliza-
tion, energy use, and carbon footprint; and 
(C) creating voluntary guidelines for high- 
performing school buildings, including guidelines 
concerning the following: 
(i) Site location, storm water manage-
ment, outdoor surfaces, outdoor lighting, 
and transportation, including public transit 
and pedestrian and bicycle accessability. 
(ii) Outdoor water systems, land-
scaping to minimize water use, including 
elimination of irrigation systems for land-
scaping, and indoor water use reduction. 
(iii) Energy efficiency (including min-
imum and superior standards, such as for 
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning 
systems), use of alternative energy sources, 
commissioning, and training. 
(iv) Use of durable, sustainable mate-
rials and waste reduction. 
(v) Indoor environmental quality, such 
as day lighting in classrooms, lighting qual-
ity, indoor air quality (including with ref-
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erence to reducing the incidence and effects 
of asthma and other respiratory illnesses), 
acoustics, and thermal comfort. 
(vi) Operations and management, such 
as use of energy-efficient equipment, indoor 
environmental management plan, mainte-
nance plan, and pest management. 
(3) GRANTS
TO
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGEN-
CIES.—From the amount allocated to a State under 
paragraph (1), each eligible local educational agency 
in the State shall receive an amount in proportion to 
the amount received by such local educational agency 
under part A of title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 
seq.) for the previous fiscal year relative to the total 
amount received by all local educational agencies in 
the State under such part for such fiscal year, except 
that no local educational agency that received funds 
under such part for such fiscal year shall receive a 
grant of less than $5,000 in any fiscal year under 
this chapter. 
(4) SPECIAL RULE.—Section 1122(c)(3) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 6332(c)(3)) shall not apply to paragraph 
(1) or (3). 
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