---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 3998"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "3998"
heading: "Computation of grant amounts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/3998"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Education for Economic Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Partnerships in Education for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering"
  - "Part B — Elementary and Secondary Education Partnerships"
---

# §3998. Computation of grant amounts

- (a) **Payments to grantees—**
  - (1) **Payment by State—** The [State](/usc/20/3902.md?p=10) shall pay to the extent of amounts received by it from the [Secretary](/usc/20/3902.md?p=9) under this part, to each [applicant](/usc/20/3982.md?p=1) having an application approved under [section 3997 of this title](/usc/20/3997.md), the Federal share of the cost of the program described in the application.
  - (2) **Amount—**
    - (A) Except as provided in [subparagraph (B)](#a-2-B), the Federal share for each fiscal year shall be 75 percent.
    - (B) In the case of an [applicant](/usc/20/3982.md?p=1) that receives a waiver under [section 3995(c) of this title](/usc/20/3995.md?p=c), the Federal share for each fiscal year may be as much as 100 percent.
  - (3) **Non-Federal share—** The non-Federal share of payments under this part may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, [equipment](/usc/20/3982.md?p=2), or services.
- (b) **Payments to States—** Except as provided in [subsection (c)](#c), each [State](/usc/20/3902.md?p=10) shall receive under this part the greater of—
  - (1) an amount equal to its share of funds appropriated under [chapter 1](/usc/20/chch1.md) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act; or
  - (2) $225,000.
- (c) **Reduction for insufficient funding—** If sums appropriated to carry out this part are not sufficient to permit the [Secretary](/usc/20/3902.md?p=9) to pay in full the grants which [States](/usc/20/3902.md?p=10) may receive under [subsection (b)](#b), the amount of such grants shall be ratably reduced.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–377, title III, § 328, as added Pub. L. 100–418, title VI, § 6031(a)(2), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1482.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), probably means the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, which is subtitle D [§§ 551 to 596] of title V of Pub. L. 97–35, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 463. Chapter 1 of the Act was classified generally to subchapter I (§ 3801 et seq.) of chapter 51 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–297, title I, § 1003(a), Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 293. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.