[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 34CFR461.43]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                EDUCATION
 
PART 461--ADULT EDUCATION STATE-ADMINISTERED BASIC GRANT PROGRAM--
Table of Contents
 
           Subpart E--What Conditions Must be Met by a State?
 
Sec. 461.43  Under what circumstances may the Secretary waive the 
maintenance of effort requirement?

    (a) The Secretary may waive, for one year only, the maintenance of 
effort requirement in Sec. 461.42 if the Secretary determines that a 
waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable 
circumstances. These circumstances include, but are not limited to, the 
following:
    (1) A natural disaster.
    (2) An unforeseen and precipitous decline in financial resources.
    (b) The Secretary does not consider a tax initiative or referendum 
to be an exceptional or uncontrollable circumstance.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1209(b)(2))