§300d–18 Determination of amount of allotment

Summary

Decides how much money each State and territory gets for the year. Each place gets either a set minimum or a calculated amount — whichever is larger. The minimum is $250,000 for each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and $50,000 for the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The calculated amount is the sum of two parts. The first part is 80% of the program money available that year, split by each place’s share of the total U.S. population. The second part is 20% of that money, split by each State’s land area but with each State’s area counted no higher than 266,807 square miles and compared to the total of those capped areas for all States. If some money is not paid to a State because the State did not apply, did not prepare an acceptable application in time, or told the Secretary it will not spend its full allotment, those funds are reallocated to the States that are receiving payments. The reallocation is done using the same population share used in the 80% part.