and regulations, including provisions relating to the tenure, selection, appointment, and qualifications of personnel, and (B) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of minimum standards governing the facilities and personnel utilized in the provision of vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services, but the Commissioner 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 (3) of subsection (a) of section 103, and the remainder of such services specified in such section after full consideration of eligibility for similar benefits under any other program, except that, in the case of the vocational rehabilitation services specified in clauses (4) and (5) of subsection (a) of such section, such consideration shall not be required where it would delay the provision of such services to any individual; (10) provide that (A) an individualized written rehabilitation program meeting the requirements of section 102 will be developed for each handicapped individual eligible for vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services under this Act, (B) such services will be provided under the plan in accordance with such program, and (C) records of the characteristics of each applicant will be kept specifying, as to those individuals who apply for services under this title or pursuant to title II of this Act and are determined not to be eligible therefor, the reasons for such determinations;

(11) provide that the State agency will make such reports in such form, containing such information (including the data described in subclause (C) of clause (10) of this subesction, periodic estimates of the population of handicapped individuals eligible for services under this Act in such State, specifications of the number of such individuals who will be served with funds provided under this Act and the outcomes and service goals to be achieved for such individuals in each priority category specified in accordance with clause (5) of this subsection, and the service costs for each such category), and at such time as the Commissioner may require to carry out his functions under this title, and comply with such provisions as he may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports;

(12) 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 handicapped individuals, veterans programs, manpower programs, and public employment offices, and the Social Security Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Veterans' Administration, and other Federal, State and local public agencies providing services related to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals;

(13) provide satisfactory assurances to the Commissioner 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; (14) (A) 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, and

(B) provide that special consideration will be given to the rehabilitation under this Act of a handicapped individual whose handicapping condition arises from a disability sustained in the line of duty while such individual was performing as a public safety officer and the proximate cause of such disability was a criminal act, apparent criminal act, or a hazardous condition resulting directly from the officer's performance of duties in direct connection with the enforcement, execution, and administration of law or fire prevention, firefighting, or related public safety activities;

(15) provide that no residence requirement will be imposed which excludes from services under the plan any individual who is present in the State; (16) 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 population of handicapped individuals and the need for expansion of services to those individuals with the most severe handicaps;

(17) 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;

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

(A) the Federal share of the cost of construction thereof for a fiscal year will not exceed an amount equal to 10 per centum of the State's allotment for such year,

(B) the provisions of section 313 shall be applicable to such construction and such provisions shall be deemed to apply to such construction, and

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

(19) provide satisfactory assurances to the Commissioner that the State agency designated pursuant to clause (1) (or each State agency if two are so designated) 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

(20) provide satisfactory assurances to the Commissioner that the continuing studies required under clause (16) of this subsection, as well as an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in meeting the goals and priorities set forth in the plan, will form the basis for the submission, from time to time as the Commissioner may require, of appropriate amendments to the plan.

(b) The Commissioner shall approve any plan which he finds fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a) of this section, and he shall disapprove any plan which does not fulfill such conditions. Prior to such disapproval, the Commissioner shall notify a State of his intention to disapprove its plan, and he shall afford such State reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing.

(c) Whenever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of the State plan approved under this section, finds that

(1) the plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section; or

(2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision,

the Commissioner shall notify such State agency that no further payments will be made to the State under this title (or, in his discretion, that such further payments will be reduced, in accordance with regulations the Commissioner shall prescribe, or that further payments will not be made to the State only for the projects under the parts of the State plan affected by such failure), until he is satisfied there is no longer any such failure. Until he is so satisfied, the Commissioner shall make no further payments to such State under this title (or shall limit payments to projects under those parts of the State plan in which there is no such failure).

(d) If any State is dissatisfied with the Commissioner's action under subsection (b) or (c) of this section, such State may appeal to the United States district court for the district where the capital of such State is located and judicial review of such action shall be on the record in accordance with the provisions of chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code.

INDIVIDUALIZED WRITTEN REHABILITATION PROGRAM

SEC. 102. (a) The Commissioner shall insure that the individualized written rehabilitation program required by section 101 (a) (10) in the case of each handicapped individual is developed jointly by the vocational rehabilitation counselor or coordinator and the handicapped individual (or, in appropriate cases, has parents or guardians), and that such program meets the requirements set forth in subsection (b) of this section. Such written program shall set forth the terms and conditions, as well as the rights and remedies, under which goods and services will be provided to the individual.

(b) Each individualized written rehabilitation program shall be reviewed on an annual basis at which time each such individual (or, in appropriate cases, his parents or guardians) will be afforded an opportunity to review such program and renegotiate its terms. Such program shall include, but not be limited to (1) a statement of long-range rehabilitation goals for the individual and intermediate rehabilitation objectives related to the attainment of such goals, (2) a statement of the specific vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services to be provided, (3) the projected date for the initiation and the anticipated duration of each such service, (4) objective criteria and an evaluation procedure and schedule for determining whether such objectives and goals are being achieved, and, (5) where appropriate, a detailed explanation of the availability of a client assistance project established in such area pursuant to section 112.

(c) The Commissioner shall also insure that (1) in developing and carrying out the individualized written rehabilitation program required by section 101 in the case of each handicapped individual primary emphasis is placed upon the determination and achievement of a vocational goal for such individual, (2) a decision that such an individual is not capable of achieving such a goal, and thus not eligible for vocational rehabilitation services provided with assistance under this part, is made only in full consultation with such individual (or, in appropriate cases, his parents or guardians), and only upon the certification, as an amendment to such written program, that the evaluation of rehabilitation potential has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that such individual is not then capable of achieving such a goal, and (3) any such decision shall be reviewed at least annually in accordance with the procedure and criteria established in this section.

SCOPE OF

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

SERVICES

SEC. 103. (a) Vocational rehabilitation services provided under this Act are any goods or services necessary to render a handicapped individual employable, including, but not limited to, the following:

(1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential, including diagonostic and related services, incidental to the determination of eligibility for, and the nature and scope of, services to be provided, including, where appropriate, examination by a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of emotional disorders, or by a licensed psychologist in accordance with State laws and regulations, or both;

(2) counseling, guidance, referral, and placement services for handicapped individuals, including follow-up, follow-along, and other postemployment services necessary to assist such individuals to maintain their employment and services designed to help handicapped individuals secure needed services from other agencies, where such services are not available under this Act;

(3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals, which shall include personal and vocational adjustment, books, and other training materials, and services to the families of such individuals as are necessary to the adjustment or rehabilitation of such individuals: Provided, That no training services in institutions of nigher education shall be paid for with funds under tnis title or title II of this Act unless maximum efforts have been made to secure grant assistance, in whole or in part, from other sources to pay for such training;

(4) physical and mental restoration services, including, but not limited to, (A) corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition which is stable or slowly progressive and constitutes a substantial handicap to employment, but is of such nature that such correction or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or substantially reduce the handicap within a reasonable length of time, (B) necessary hospitalization in connection with surgery or treatment, (C) prosthetic and orthotic devices, (D) eye glasses and visual services as prescribed by a physician skilled in the diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, whichever the individual may select, (E) special services (including transplantation and dialysis), artificial kidneys, and supplies necessary for the treatment of individuals suffering from end-stage renal disease, and (F) diagnosis and treatment for mental and emotional disorders by a physician or licensed psychologist in accordance with State licensure laws;

(5) maintenance, not exceeding the estimated cost of subsistence, during rehabilitation;

(6) interpreter services for the deaf, and reader services for those individuals determined to be blind after an examination by a physician skilled in the

diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, whichever the individual may select; (7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals to provide them with new employment opportunities in the fields of rehabilitation, health, welfare, public safety, and law enforcement, and other appropriate service employment;

(8) rehabilitation teaching services and orientation and mobility services for the blind;

(9) occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies; (10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation service; and

(11) telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices. (b) Vocational rehabilitation services, when provided for the benefit of groups of individuals, may also include the following:

(1) in the case of any type of small business operated by individuals with the most severe handicaps the operation of which can be improved by management services and supervision provided by the State agency, the provision of such services and supervision, alone or together with the acquisition by the State agency of vending facilities or other equipment and initial stocks and supplies; and

(2) the construction or establishment of public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities and the provision of other facilities and services which promise to contribute substantially to the rehabilitation of a group of individuals but which are not related directly to the individualized rehabilitation written program of any one handicapped individual.

NON-FEDERAL SHARE FOR CONSTRUCTION

SEC. 105. For the purpose of determining the amount of payments to States for carrying out part B of this title, the non-Federal share, subject to such limitations and conditions as may be prescribed in regulations by the Commissioner, shall include contributions of funds made by any private agency, organization, or individual to a State or local agency to assist in meeting the costs of construction or establishment of a public or nonprofit rehabilitation facility, which would be regarded as State or local funds except for the condition, imposed by the contributor, limiting use of such funds to construction or establishment of such facility.

PART B-BASIC VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
STATE ALLOTMENTS

SEC. 110. (a) For each fiscal year, each State shall be entitled to an allotment of an amount bearing the same ratio to the amount authorized to be appropriated under subsection (b)(1) of section 100 for allotment under this section as the product of (1) the population of the State and (2) the square of its allotment percentage bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States. The allotment to any State (other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) under the first sentence of this subsection for any fiscal year which is less than one-quarter of 1 per centum of the amount appropriated under section 100(b)(1), or $2,000,000, whichever is greater, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining such States under the first sentence of this subsection, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.

(b) Whenever the Commissioner determines that any amount of an allotment to a State for any fiscal year will not be utilized by such State in carrying out the purposes of this title, he shall make such amount available for carrying out the purposes of this title to one or more other States to the extent he determines such other State will be able to use such additional amount during such year for carrying out such purposes. Any amount made available to a State for any fiscal year pursuant to the preceding sentence shall, for the purposes of this part, be regarded as an increase of such State's allotment (as determined under the preceding provisions of this section) for such year.

PAYMENTS TO STATES

SEC. 111(a). From each State's allotment under this part for any fiscal year, the Commissioner shall pay to such State an amount equal to the Federal share

of the cost of vocational rehabilitation services under the plan for such State approved under section 101, including expenditures for the administration of the State plan, except that the total of such payments to such State for such fiscal year may not exceed its allotment under subsection (a) of section 110 for such year and such payments shall not be made in an amount which would result in a violation of the provisions of the State plan required by clause (18) of section 101(a), and except that the amount otherwise payable to such State for such year under this section shall be reduced by the amount (if any) by which expenditures from non-Federal sources during such year under this title are less than expenditures under the State plan for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act.

(b) The method of computing and paying amounts pursuant to subsection (a) shall be as follows:

(1) The Commissioner shall, prior to the beginning of each calendar quarter or other period prescribed by him, estimate the amount to be paid to each State under the provisions of such subsection for such period, such estimate to be based on such records of the State and information furnished by it, and such other investigation, as the Commissioner may find necessary.

(2) The Commissioner shall pay, from the allotment available therefor, the amount so estimated by him for such period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum (not previously adjusted under this paragraph) by which he finds that his estimate of the amount to be paid the State for any prior period under such subsection was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such prior period under such subsection. Such payment shall be made prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, shall be made through the disbursing facilities of the Treasury Department, and shall be made in such installments as the Commissioner may determine.

CLIENT ASSISTANCE

SEC. 112. (a) The Commissioner shall set aside out of funds appropriated under section 305 for special projects and demonstrations up to $2,500,000 but no less than $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1973, and up to $5,000,000 but no less than $1,000,000 each for the two succeeding fiscal years to establish in no less than ten nor more than twenty geographically dispersed regions client assistance pilot projects (hereinafter in this section referred to as "projects") to provide counselors to inform and advise all clients and client applicants in the project area of all available benefits under this Act and to assist them in their relationships with projects, programs, and facilities providing services to them under this Act.

(b) The Commissioner shall prescribe regulations which shall include the following requirements:

(1) All employees of such projects shall not be presently serving as staff, consultants or receiving benefits of any kind directly or indirectly from any rehabilitation project, program or facility.

(2) The staff of such projects shall be afforded reasonable access to policymaking and administrative personnel in State and local rehabilitation programs, projects, and facilities.

(3) The project shall submit an annual report, through the State agency designated pursuant to section 101, to the Commissioner on the operation of the project during the previous year, including a summary of the work done and a uniform statistical tabulation of all cases handled by such project. A copy of each such report shall be submitted to the appropriate Committees of the Congress by the Commissioner, together with a summary of such reports and his evaluation of such projects, including appropriate recommendations.

(4) Each State agency may enter into cooperative arrangements with institutions of higher education to secure the services in such projects of graduate students who are undergoing clinical training activities in related fields. No compensation with funds appropriated under this Act shall be provided to such students.

(5) Reasonable assurance shall be given by the appropriate State agency that all clients or client applicants within the project area shall have the opportunity to receive adequate service under the project and shall not be pressured against or otherwise discouraged from availing themselves of the services available under such project.

(6) The project shall be funded, administered, and operated directly by the State agency designated pursuant to section 101.

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