William Orton: “I rise in support of the Machtley-Orton amendment to H.R. 6. As the gentleman has indicated, this amendment would…”

“I rise in support of the Machtley-Orton amendment to H.R. 6. As the gentleman has indicated, this amendment would restore a portion of the impact aid funding for students whose parents are civilian employees of the Defense Department and work but do not live on Federal installations. I would just like to note that the funding levels in this bill originally included the impact aid, so we have funded it at a greater level than would be necessary if in fact we do not include 'b' impact aid. Therefore, by adopting this amendment, and I certainly hope that we can resolve this issue before final passage of the bill, but by adopting this amendment it would not take money from any other aid or for aid to any other schools or students. Mr. Chairman, just let me indicate that in my district, I know that 2,100 schools around the country are impacted by this aid, in Utah there are 25 schools districts who receive this aid and would be faced with reductions of the tax base due to Federal ownership of property and increased civilian student enrollments attributable to the Federal activity taking place on that land.”