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1 ucation, and Welfare, a National Information and Resource 2 Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center").

3 (2) The Center shall have a Director and such other

4 personnel as may be necessary to enable the Center to carry

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(b) (1) It shall be the duty and function of the Center 7 to collect, review, organize, publish, and disseminate 8 (through publications, conferences, workshops, or technical 9 consultation) information and data related to the particular 10 problems caused by handicapping conditions, including in11 formation describing measures which are or may be em12 ployed for meeting or overcoming such problems, with a 13 view to assisting individuals who are handicapped, and or14 ganizations and persons interested in the welfare of the 15 handicapped, in meeting problems which are peculiar to, or 16 are made more difficult for, individuals who are handicapped 17 including the handicapped aged.

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(E) employment;

(F) transportation;

(G) architecture and housing (including household

appliances and equipment);

(H) recreation; and

(I) public or private programs established for, or which may be used in, solving problems of the handicapped.

(c) (1) The Secretary shall make available to the Cen

ter all information and data, within the Department of 13 Health, Education, and Welfare, which may be useful in

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SEC. 411. (a) In order

(1) to demonstrate methods of (A) providing the specialized intensive services, as well as other services, needed to rehabilitate handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, and (B) training the professional and allied personnel needed adequately to staff facilities specially designed to provide such services and training such personnel who have been or will be working with the deaf-blind;

(2) to conduct research in the problems of, and ways of meeting the problems of rehabilitating, the deafblind; and

(3) to aid in the conduct of related activities which will expand or improve the services for or help improve

public understanding of the problems of the deaf-blind;

the Secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with

any public or nonprofit private agency or organization for payment by the United States of all or part of the costs of the establishment and operation, including construction and equipment, of a center for vocational rehabilitation of handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind which shall be known as the National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and

Adults.

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(b) Any agency or organization desiring to enter into 2 such agreement shall submit a proposal therefor at such

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blind.

(c) The agreement shall-

(1) provide that Federal funds paid to the agency or organization for the Center will be used only for the purposes for which paid and in accordance with the applicable provisions of this section and the agreement made pursuant thereto;

(2) provide that the agency or organization making the agreement will make an annual report to the Secretary, which the Secretary in turn shall transmit to

the Congress with such comments and recommendations

as he may deem appropriate;

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work on any construction aided by Federal funds under

this section will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as

determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with

the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a276a-5); with the Secretary of Labor having, with re

spect to the labor standards specified in this paragraph, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C.

276c);

(4) for subsequent program evaluation, include a clear statement of the objectives of the Center. These goals shall be listed in order of priority and stated as

much as possible in a form amenable to quantification; and

(5) include such other conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

(d) If within twenty years after the completion of any 20 construction (except minor remodeling or alteration) for 21 which funds have been paid pursuant to an agreement under 22 this section the facility constructed ceases to be used for the purposes for which it was constructed or the agreement is 24 terminated, the United States, unless the Secretary deter

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