Older Americans Act Amendments of 1972: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on S. 3181, to Provide for the Establishment of an Office for the Aging in the Executive Office of the President, for the Fulfillment of the Purposes of the Older Americans Act, for Enlarging the Scope of that Act, and for Other Purposes; S. 3076, to Strengthen and Improve the Older Americans Act of 1965; [and] S. 3391, to Provide for the Continuation of Programs Authorized Under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for Other Purposes, March 3, 22, 23; May 3, 15, 18, 31; and June 7, 14, 1972

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Page 186 - Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per diem, including travel time, and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 174 - State board which is dissatisfied with a final action of the Commissioner under subsection (b) or (c) may appeal to the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which the State is located, by filing a petition with such court within sixty days after such final action.
Page 60 - Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his action as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. (b) The findings of fact by the Commissioner, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive...
Page 175 - Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary or to set it aside, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, but until the filing of the record, the Secretary may modify or set nside his order.
Page 126 - This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired, But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn'ta scab or odd in his views, For his Union reports...
Page 167 - To provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the "Administration on Aging".
Page 168 - Nation are entitled to, and it is the joint and several duty and responsibility of the governments of the United States and of the several States and their political subdivisions to assist our older people to secure equal opportunity to the full and free enjoyment of the following objectives: (1) An adequate income in retirement in accordance with the American standard of living.
Page 318 - Pursuit of meaningful activity within the widest range of civic, cultural, and recreational opportunities.
Page 24 - States shall, from time to time, designate one of the members of the Board to serve as Chairman.
Page 174 - State plan approved under subsection (a) , finds that— (1) the State plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of subsection (a), or (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision...

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