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1 ated $900,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; 2 $1,150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974; 3 and $1,350,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 4 1975. Of the amounts appropriated for each such fiscal

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year under this subsection, 15 per centum in each such year 6 shall be available only for the provision of vocational and 7 comprehensive rehabilitation services to the severely handi8 capped in accordance with part C of this title.

9 (b) For the purpose of making grants under section 10 111, relating to grants to States and public and nonprofit 11 agencies to assist them in meeting the costs of projects to 12 initiate or expand services to handicapped (especially se13 verely handicapped) individuals, there is authorized to be 14 appropriated $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 15 1973, $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, 16 and $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.

18 SEC. 101. (a) For each fiscal year in which a State 19 desires to participate in programs under this title, a State 20 shall submit to the Secretary for his approval an annual 21 plan for vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services

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(1) (A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its admin

istration by a local agency, except that (i) where under

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the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to provide vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services to such individuals, such

agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan under which vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon

the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with an

other agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State;

(B) provide that the State agency so designated to administer or supervise the administration of the State

plan, or (if there ar two State agencies designated

under subparagraph (A)) to supervise or administer

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the part of the State plan that does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily con

cerned with vocational rehabilitation, or vocational and

other rehabilitation, of handicapped individuals, (ii) the

State agency administering or supervising the administration of education or vocational education in the State,

or (iii) a State agency which includes at least two other major organizational units each of which administers one or more of the major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State;

(2) provide, except in the case of agencies described in clause (1) (B) (i)–

(A) that the State agency designated pursuant to paragraph (1) (or each State agency if two are so designated) shall include a vocational rehabilitation bureau, division, or other organizational

unit which (i) is primarily concerned with vocational rehabilitation, or Vocational and other rehabilitation, of handicapped individuals, and is responsible for the vocational rehabilitation program of such State agency, (ii) has a full-time director,

and (iii) has a staff employed on such rehabilitation work of such organizational unit all or substantially

all of whom are employed full time on such work;

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(B) (i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1) (B) (ii), either that such unit shall be so lo

cated and have status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to paragraph (1), such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such

agency, with the provisions of this clause (2) applying separately to each of such units;

(3) provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies

to meet the amount of the non-Federal share;

(4) provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist

in promoting the vocational rehabilitation of substantially

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larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of

handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive com

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extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non-Federal share of the cost of such vocational rehabilitation services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

(5) contain the plan, policies, and methods to be followed in carrying out the State plan and in its administration and supervision, including a description of the method to be used to expand and improve services to severely handicapped individuals; and in the event that vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services cannot be provided to all eligible handicapped individuals who apply for such services, show the order to be followed in selecting those to whom vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services will be provided, which order of selection shall place special emphasis on severely handicapped individuals;

(6) (A) contain the plans, policies, and methods to

be followed in providing vocational and comprehensive