§14521 Required Level of Expenditure

Summary

A state or its local governments cannot get these federal benefits for the Appalachian area unless the state keeps its own spending for that area at least as high as the state's average spending for the two full fiscal years prior to March 9, 1965. When counting that spending, do not include federal or local money or the state's spending to take part in the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. The Commission can tell the President to allow a lower spending requirement if it finds either that the part of the state in the region lost a lot of people so the old spending level is not reasonable, or that the state's past spending in a single program was out of line with current need in that area.