20 U.S.C. § 7710 — Federal administration

(a) Payments in whole dollar amounts. The Secretary must round payments under this subchapter to the nearest whole dollar.

(b) Other agencies. Each federal agency that administers Federal property^* where children live, and each agency mainly responsible for an activity that could lead to assistance under this subchapter, must, as far as practicable, provide information the Secretary requests to carry out this subchapter.

(c) Special rules. (1) Certain children. (A) The Secretary must treat a child as eligible under section 7703(a)(1)(A) if the child would qualify except that the Federal property where the child lives or where the child’s parent works is in a different State from the State where the child attends school, if the child meets paragraph (2). (B) The Secretary must treat a child as eligible under section 7703(a)(1)(G) if the child would qualify except that the child does not meet clause (ii) of that subparagraph, if the child meets paragraph (2). (2) Requirements. A child meets this paragraph if—(A) the child lives (i) in a State next to the State where the local educational agency serving the child’s school is located, or (ii) with a parent who works on Federal property in a State next to the State where that agency is located; (B) that agency’s schools are a more reasonable commute from the child’s home than the schools of the agency serving the attendance area where the child lives; (C) attending the latter agency’s schools would cause the child substantial hardship; (D) the State where the child attends school funds the child’s education on the same basis as other public-school children, unless section 7709(b) allows otherwise; and (E) that agency received a fiscal-year-1999 payment under section 7703(b) for children described in paragraph (1).

(d) Timely payments. (1) General rule. Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary must pay a local educational agency the full amount it is eligible to receive under this subchapter for a fiscal year by September 30 of the second fiscal year after the fiscal year for which the amount was appropriated, if the agency submits all necessary data and information within one calendar year after the appropriation fiscal year. (2) Insufficient appropriations. If the appropriation under section 7714 is not enough to pay the full eligible amount, paragraph (1) applies by replacing each use of “the agency is eligible to receive” with “is available to pay the agency.”