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(a) There is established as a separate and distinct fund in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands the Youth Education and Training Endowment Fund (hereinafter, the 'Fund'). The Commissioner of Finance shall provide for the administration of the Fund, and no monies contained therein shall be available for expenditure except as provided in this section.\n(b) The Fund shall consist of the remainder of the Eight Million Dollars received by the Government of the Virgin Islands pursuant to the Third Extension and Amendment Agreement between the Government of the Virgin Islands, Hess Oil Virgin Islands, Corp. and Petroleos De Venezuela, S.A.V.I., Inc., public or private monetary grants, gifts, donations, bequests or devises, and all sums appropriated thereto from time to time, by the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.\n(c) The purpose of the fund is to pay for vocational, general and technical education programs, and environmental assessment programs.\n(d) There is hereby appropriated from the Youth Education and Training Endowment Fund the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Seventy-Nine Thousand Three Hundred ($5,579,300) Dollars for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000 for the

rom the Youth Education and Training Endowment Fund the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Seventy-Nine Thousand Three Hundred ($5,579,300) Dollars for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000 for the following purposes:\nDEPARTMENT OF LABOR\nYouth Development Training Program\n350,000\nJobs for Virgin Islands Graduates\n340,000\nBOARD OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION\nFor operating expenses and other purposes\n40,000\nBOARD OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION\nVocational Education Week\n5,000\nJames A. Petersen Scholarship\n9,300\nAlbert Ragster, Sr. Scholarship\n20,000\nUNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS\nTo establish a Research, Training and Environmental Studies Endowment\n900,000\nDEPARTMENT OF LABOR\nSummer youth employment program\n500,000\nDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION\nScience Lab\nSt. Croix Central High School\n100,000\nSubstitute teacher pool\nDistrict of St. Thomas/St. John\n150,000\nDistrict of St. Croix\n150,000\nInterscholastic athletics\nDistrict of St. Thomas/St. John\n150,000\nDistrict of St. Croix\n150,000\nImplement the Economic Literacy Program\n50,000\nComputer labs\nE. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School\n25,000\nLockhart Elementary School\n25,000\nJoseph Sibilly Elementary

rict of St. Croix\n150,000\nImplement the Economic Literacy Program\n50,000\nComputer labs\nE. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School\n25,000\nLockhart Elementary School\n25,000\nJoseph Sibilly Elementary School\n25,000\nJulius E. Sprauve School\n40,000\nBertha C. Boschulte Junior High School\n50,000\nIvanna Eudora Kean High School\n50,000\nEducational Complex to develop vocational and technical, training, library services and to purchase equipment\n900,000\nForeign Language Lab\nSt. Croix Central High School\n100,000\nEstablish after school programs:\nAddelita Cancryn Junior High School\n50,000\nBertha C. Boschulte Junior High School\n50,000\nArthur Richards Junior High School\n50,000\nElena Christian Junior High School\n50,000\nJohn H. Woodson Junior High School\n50,000\nDEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND NATURAL RESOURCES\nPublic libraries to purchase books, periodicals and research materials\n1,000,000\nBEACON SCHOOLS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, INC.\nTo establish two new Beacon Schools at the junior-high level\nSt. Croix\n100,000\nThomas\n100,000\nTOTAL\n5,579,300