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rehabilitation services in accordance with part C of this title to severely handicapped individuals, including a

description of the quality, scope, and extent of services which are provided, and

(B) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the State has studied and considered a broad variety of means for providing services to severely handicapped individuals including, but not limited to, regional and

community centers, services to homebound and institutionalized individuals, half-way houses, and patientrelease programs, where such programs are appropriate and beneficial;

(7) provide for such methods of administration, other than methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of the plan, including provision for the establishment of a client advocacy system as required in section 112 of this Act;

(8) contain (A) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, which are consistent with any State licensure laws and regu

lations, including provisions relating to the tenure, selection, appointment, and qualifications of personnel, and

(B) provisions relating to the establishment and main

tenance of minimum standards governing the facilities

2 and personnel utilized in the provision of vocational and

comprehensive rehabilitation services, but the Secretary

shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection,

method of selection, tenure of office, or compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such provisions;

(9) provide, at a minimum, for the provision of the vocational rehabilitation services specified in clauses (1) through (5) of subsection (a) of section 103, except that reimbursement may be sought from appropriate State or Federal programs or private insurers for services provided under clause (4) of such section, and the re

mainder of such services specified in such section after

full consideration of eligibility for similar benefits under any other program, and provide that an individualized written rehabilitation program meeting the requirements

of section 102 of this Act will be developed for each handicapped individual, and that such services will be provided under the plan in accordance with such

program;

(10) provide that the State agency will make such

reports in such form, containing such information, and at

such time, as the Secretary may require to carry out his

functions under this title, and comply with such provi

(11) provide for entering into cooperative arrangements with, and the utilization of the services and facilities of, the State agencies administering the State's public assistance programs, other programs for the handicapped, veterans programs, manpower programs, and public employment offices, the Social Security Administration (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare), the Veterans' Administration, and other Federal, State and local public agencies providing services related to the rehabilitation of the handicapped;

(12) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that, in the provision of vocational rehabilitation and comprehensive rehabilitation services, maximum utilization shall be made of public or other vocational or technical training facilities or other appropriate resources in the community;

(13) provide that vocational rehabilitation and comprehensive rehabilitation services provided under the State plan shall be available to any civil employee of the United States disabled while in the performance

of his duty on the same terms and conditions as apply

to other persons;

(14) provide that no residence requirement will be

imposed which excludes from services under the plan any

individual who is present in the State;

(15) provide for continuing statewide studies of the needs of handicapped individuals and how these needs

may be most effectively met (including the State's needs for rehabilitation facilities) with a view toward the relative need for services to significant segments of the 8 population of handicapped individuals and the need for expansion of services to severely handicapped individ

uals;

(16) provide for (A) periodic review and reevaluation of the status of handicapped individuals placed in extended employment in rehabilitation facilities (including workshops) to determine the feasibility of their employment, or training for employment, in the competitive labor market, and (B) maximum efforts to place such individuals in such employment or training whenever it is determined to be feasible;

(17) provide that where such State plan includes provisions for the construction of rehabilitation facilities

(A) the Federal share of the cost of construc

tion thereof for a fiscal year will not exceed an

amount equal to 10 per centum of the State's allot

ment for such year,

(B) the provisions of section 212 shall be ap

plicable to such construction and such provisions shall be deemed to apply to such construction, and (C) there shall be compliance with regulations of the Secretary designed to assure that no State will reduce its efforts in providing other vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services (other than for the establishment of rehabilitation facilities) because its plan includes such provisions for construction;

(18) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the State agency designated pursuant to paragraph (1) (or each State agency if two are so desig

nated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of individuals and groups thereof who are recipients of vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services (or, in appropriate cases, their parents or guardians), working in the field of vocational rehabilitation, and providers of vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services;

and

(19) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the continuing studies required under clause (15) of this subsection, as well as an annual evaluation

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