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funds from the State's allotment under such part (1) has in effect for each developmentally disabled person who receives services from or under the program a habilitation plan meeting the requirements of subsection (b), and (2) provides for an annual review, in accordance with subsection (c), of each such plan.

(b) A habilitation plan for a person with developmental disabilities shall meet the following requirements:

(1) The plan shall be in writing.

(2) The plan shall be developed jointly by (A) a representative or representatives of the program primarily responsible for delivering or coordinating the delivery of services to the person for whom the plan is established, (B) such person, and (C) where appropriate, such person's parents or guardian or other representative.

(3) The plan shall contain a statement of the long-term habilitation goals for the person and the intermediate habilitation objectives relating to the attainments of such goals. Such objectives shall be stated specifically and in sequence and shall be expressed in behavioral or other terms that provide measurable indices of progress. The plan shall (A) describe how the objectives will be achieved and the barriers that might interfere with the achievement of them, (B) state an objective criteria and an evaluation procedure and schedule for determining whether such objectives and goals are being achieved, and (C) provide for a program coordinator who will be responsible for the implementation of the plan.

(4) The plan shall contain a statement (in readily understandable form) of specific habilitation services to be provided, shall identify each agency which will deliver such services, shall describe the personnel (and their qualifications) necessary for the provision of such services, and shall specify the date of the initiation of each service to be provided and the anticipated duration of each such service.

(5) The plan shall specify the role and objectives of all parties to the implementation of the plan.

(c) Each habilitation plan shall be reviewed at least annually by the agency primarily responsible for the delivery of services to the person for whom the plan was established or responsible for the coordination of the delivery of services to such person. In the course of the review, such person and the person's parents or guardian or other representative shall be given an opportunity to review such plan and to participate in its revision.

PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

SEC. 113. [6012] (a) In order for a State to receive an allotment under part C, (1) the State must have in effect a system to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities, (2) such system must (A) have the authority to pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to insure the protection of the rights of such persons who are receiving treatment, services, or habilitation within the State, (B) not be administered by the State Planning Council, and (C) be independent of any agency which provides treatment, services, or habilitation to persons with developmental disabilities, and (3) the State must submit to the

Secretary in a form prescribed by the Secretary in regulations (A) a report, not less often than once every three years, describing the system, and (B) an annual report describing the activities carried out under the system and any changes made in the system during the previous year.

(b)(1)(A) To assist States in meeting the requirements of subsection (a), the Secretary shall allot to the States the sums appropriated under paragraph (2). Allotments and reallotments of such sums shall be made on the same basis as the allotments and reallotments are made under the first sentence of subsections (a)(1) and (d) of section 132, except that no State (other than Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) in any fiscal year shall be allotted an amount under this subparagraph which is less than the greater of $50,000 or the amount of the allotment to 'the State under this paragraph for the previous fiscal year.

(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), if the aggregate of the amounts of the allotments for grants to be made in accordance with such subparagraph for any fiscal year exceeds the total of the amounts appropriate for such allotments under paragraph (2), the amount of a State's allotment for such fiscal year shall bear the same ratio to the amount otherwise determined under such subparagraph as the total of the amounts appropriated for that year under paragraph (2) bears to the aggregate amount required to make an allotment to each of the States in accordance with subparagraph (A).

(2) For allotments under paragraph (1), there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $9,000,000 for fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $12,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981. The provisions of section 1913 of title 18, United States Code, shall be applicable to all moneys authorized under the provisions of this section.

PART B-UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED FACILITIES

GRANT AUTHORITY

SEC. 121. [6031] (a) From appropriations under section 123, the Secretary shall make grants to university affiliated facilities to assist in the administration and operation of the activities described in section 102(10).

(b) The Secretary may make one or more grants to a university affiliated facility receiving a grant under subsection (a) to support one or more of the following activities:

(1) Conducting a feasibility study of the ways in which it, singly or jointly with other university affiliated facilities which have received a grant under subsection (a), can establish and operate one or more satellite centers which would be located in areas not served by a university affiliated facility. Such a study shall be carried out in consultation with the State Planning Council for the State in which the facility is located and where the satellite center would be established.

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(2) Assessing the need for trained personnel in providing assistance to persons with developmental disabilities.

(3) Provision of service-related training to practitioners providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

(4) Conducting an applied research program designed to produce more efficient and effective methods (A) for the delivery of services to persons with developmental disabilities, and (B) for the training of professionals, paraprofessionals, and parents who provide these services.

The amount of a grant under paragraph (1) may not exceed $25,000.

(c) The Secretary may make grants to pay part of the costs of establishing satellite centers and may make grants to satellite centers to pay part of their administration and operation costs. The Secretary may approve an application for a grant under this subsection only if the feasibility of establishing or operating the satellite center for which the grant is applied for has been established by a study assisted under this section.

APPLICATIONS

SEC. 122. [6032] (a) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978, the Secretary shall establish by regulation standards for university affiliated facilities. These standards for facilities shall reflect the special needs of persons with developmental disabilities who are of various ages, and shall include performance standards relating to each of the activities described in section 102(10).

(b) No grants may be made under section 121 unless an application therefor is submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. Such an application shall be submitted in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the Secretary may require. Such an application shall be approved by the Secretary only if the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that

(1) the making of the grant will (A) not result in any decrease in the use of State, local, and other non-Federal funds for services for persons with developmental disabilities and for training of persons to provide such services, which funds would (except for such grant) be made available to the applicant, and (B) be used to supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the level of such funds; and

(2)(A) the applicant's facility is in full compliance with the standards established under subsection (a), or

(B)(i) the applicant is making substantial progress toward bringing the facility into compliance with such standards, and (ii) the facility will, not later than three years after the date of approval of the initial application or the date standards are promulgated under subsection (a), whichever is later, fully comply with such standards.

(c) The Secretary shall establish such a process for the review of applications for grants under section 121 as will ensure, to the maximum extent feasible, that each Federal agency that provides funds for the direct support of the applicant's facility reviews the application.

(d)(1) The amount of any grant under section 121(a) to a university affiliated facility shall not be less than $150,000 for any fiscal

year.

(2) The amount of any grant under section 121(c) to a satellite center which has received a grant under section 121(b) (as in effect before the date of the enactment of the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, shall not be less than $75,000 for any fiscal year.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 123. [6033] (a) For the purpose of making grants under section 121, there are authorized to be appropriated $12,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $14,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and $16,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981.

(b) of the sums appropriated under subsection (a), not less than(1) $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, (2) $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and

(3) $11,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, shall be made available for grants under subsections (a) and (c) of section 121 to qualified applicants which received grants under section 121 during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978. The remainder of the sums appropriated for such fiscal years shall be made available as the Secretary determines, except that not less than 40 percent of such remainder shall be made available for grants under subsections (b) and (c) of section 121.

PART C-GRANTS FOR PLANNING AND PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR ALLOTMENTS

SEC. 131. [6061] For allotments under section 132, there are authorized to be appropriated $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $55,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $65,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981.

STATE ALLOTMENTS

SEC. 132. [2672] (a)(1) In each fiscal year, the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations and this paragraph, allot the sums appropriated for such year under section 131 among the States on the basis of

(A) the population,

(B) the extent of need for services for persons with developmental disabilities, and

(C) the financial need,

of the respective States. Sums allotted to the States under this section shall be used in accordance with approved State plans under section 133 for the provision under such plans of services for persons with developmental disabilities.

(2) For any fiscal year, the allotment under paragraph (1)—

(A) to each of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands may not be less than $100,000, and

(B) to any other State may not be less than the greater of $250,000, or the amount of the allotment (determined without regard to subsection (d) received by the State for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978.

(3) In determining, for purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the extent of need in any State for services for persons with developmental disabilities, the Secretary shall take into account the scope and extent of the services described, pursuant to section 133(b)(2)(B), in the State plan of the State.

(b) Whenever the State plan approved in accordance with section 133 provides for participation of more than one State agency in administering or supervising the administration of designated portions of the State plan, the State may apportion its allotment among such agencies in a manner which, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, is reasonably related to the responsibilities assigned to such agencies in carrying out the purposes of the State plan. Funds so apportioned to State agencies may be combined with other State or Federal funds authorized to be spent for other purposes, provided the purposes of the State plan will receive proportionate benefit from the combination.

(c) Whenever the State plan approved in accordance with section 133 provides for cooperative or joint effort between States or between or among agencies, public or private, in more than one State, portions of funds allotted to one or more such cooperating States may be combined in accordance with the agreements between the agencies involved.

(d) The amount of an allotment to a State for a fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required by the State during the period for which it is available for the purpose for which allotted shall be available for reallotment by the Secretary from time to time, on such date or dates as he may fix (but not earlier than thirty days after he has published notice of his intention to make such reallotment in the Federal Register), to other States with respect to which such a determination has not been made, in proportion to the original allotments of such States for such fiscal year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary estimates such State needs and will be able to use during such period; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount so reallotted to a State for a fiscal year shall be deemed to be a part of its allotment under subsection (a) for such fiscal year.

STATE PLANS

SEC. 133. [6063] (a) Any State desiring to take advantage of this part must have a State plan submitted to and approved by the Secretary under this section.

(b) In order to be approved by the Secretary under this section, a State plan for the provision of services for persons with developmental disabilities must meet the following requirements:

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