specifically designed for deaf-blind children, including payment of stipends for trainees and allowances for travel and other expenses for them and their dependents; and (4) dissemination of materials and information about practices found effective in working with deaf-blind children. (f) For purposes of this part, the term "construction" includes, in addition to those matters set forth in section 701(b), construction of residential facilities; and the cost of construction shall be deemed to include the cost of acquisition of land in connection with any of the foregoing, but not the cost of off-site improvements. (g) If within twenty years after the completion of any construction (except minor remodeling or alteration) for which funds have been paid pursuant to a grant or contract under this part the facility constructed ceases to be used for the purposes for which it was constructed, the United States, unless the Secretary determines that there is good cause for releasing the recipient of the funds from its obligation, shall be entitled to recover from the applicant or other owner of the facility an amount which bears the same ratio to the then value of the facility as the amount of such Federal funds bore to the cost of the portion of the facility financed with such funds. Such value shall be determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States district court for the district in which the facility is situated. (h) For purposes of this part, the determination of children who are both deaf and blind shall be made in accordance with regulations of the Secretary. (i) Payments pursuant to grants or contracts under this part may be made (after necessary adjustment on account of previously made overpayments or underpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursements, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary may determine. (j) For the purpose of carrying out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $7,000,000 for the fiscal year June 30, 1970. PART D-RECRUITMENT OF PERSONNEL AND INFORMATION ON EDUCATION OF THE HANDICAPPED GRANTS OR CONTRACTS TO IMPROVE RECRUITING OF EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL, AND TO IMPROVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HANDICAPPED SEC. 610. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to public or nonprofit private agencies, organizations, or institutions, or to enter into contracts with public or private agencies, organizations, or institutions, for projects for (1) encouraging students and professional personnel to work in various fields of education of handicapped children and youth through, among other ways, developing and distributing imaginative or innovative materials to assist in recruiting personnel for such careers, or publicizing existing forms of financial aid which might enable students to pursue such careers, or (2) disseminating information about the programs, services, and resources for the education of handicapped children, or providing referral services, to parents, teachers, and other persons especially interested in the handicapped. (b) To carry out the purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years. PART E-GENERAL PROVISIONS NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HANDICAPPED CHILDREN SEC. 611. (a) The Commissioner shall establish in the Office of Education a National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children, consisting of the Commissioner, who shall be Chairman, and not more than twelve additional members, not less than 50 per centum of whom shall be persons affiliated with educational, training, or research programs for the handicapped, appointed by the Commissioner without regard to the civil service laws. (b) The Advisory Committee shall review the administration and operation of this Act, title II of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and other provisions of law administered by the Commissioner, with respect to handicapped children, including their effect in improving the educational attainment of such children, and make recommendations for the improvement of such administration and operation with respect to such children. These recommendations shall take into consideration experience gained under this and other Federal programs for handicapped children and, to the extent appropriate, experience gained under other public and private programs for handicapped children. The Advisory Committee shall from time to time make such recommendations as it may deem appropriate to the Commissioner and shall make an annual report of its findings and recommendations to the Commissioner not later than January 31 of 1968 and each fiscal year thereafter. The Commissioner shall transmit each such report to the Secretary together with his comments and recommendations, and the Secretary shall transmit such report, comments, and recommendations to the Congress together with any comments or recommendations he may have with respect thereto. (c) Members of the Advisory Committee who are not regular full-time employees of the United States shall, while serving on business of the Committee, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Commissioner, but not exceeding $100 per day, 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 5703 of title 5 of the United States Code for persons in Government service employed intermittently. (d) The Commissioner may, at the request of the Advisory Committee, appoint such special advisory professional or technical personnel as may be necessary to enable the Advisory Committee to carry out its duties. (20 U.S.C. 878) Enacted Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 161, 80 Stat. 1207. BUREAU FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE HANDICAPPED SEC. 612. The Commissioner shall establish at the earliest practicable date not later than July 1, 1967, and maintain within the Office of Education a bureau for the education and training of the handicapped which shall be the principal agency in the Office of Education for administering and carrying out programs and projects relating to the education and training of the handicapped, including programs and projects for the training of teachers of the handicapped and for research in such education and training. (20 U.S.C. 879) Enacted Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 161, 80 stat. 1208. LABOR STANDARDS SEC. 613. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on all construction projects assisted under this title shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a-5). The Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to the labor standards specified in this section the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c). (20 U.S.C. 880) Enacted Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 161, 80 Stat. 1208. DEFINITION OF "HANDICAPPED CHILDREN" SEC. 614. As used in this title, the term "handicapped children" includes mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired children who by reason thereof require special education and related services. (20 U.S.C. 872) Enacted Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 161, 80 Stat. 1204. SHORT TITLE . SEC. 615. This title may be cited as the "Education of the Handicapped Act". LEGISLATIVE HISTORY (P.L. 89-750) House Reports: No. 1814, 1814 pt. II (Committee on Education and Labor) and No. 2309 (committee of conference). Senate Report No. 1674 accompanying S. 3046 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare). Congressional Record, volume 112 (1966): October 5: Considered in House. October 6: Considered and passed House. October 5, 6: S. 3046 considered and passed Senate. October 7: Considered and passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 3046. October 19: Senate agreed to conference report. October 20: House agreed to conference report. Approved: November 3, 1966. (P.L. 90-247) House Reports: No. 188 (Committee on Education and Labor) and No. 1049 (committee of conference). Senate Report No. 726 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare). May 22-24: Considered and passed House. December 1, 4-8, 11: Considered and passed Senate amended. Approved: January 2, 1968. Excerpts From Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, as Amended (Public Law 88-164) AN ACT To provide assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for construction of research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally retarded and assistance in improving mental health through grants for construction of community mental health centers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963" TITLE III-TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF MENTALLY RETARDED AND OTHER HANDICAPPED CHILDREN RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS IN EDUCATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN SEC. 302. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966; $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; $12,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; $14,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $18,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, to enable the Commissioners of Education to make grants to States, State or local educational agencies, public and nonprofit private institutions of higher learning, and other public or nonprofit private educational or research agencies and organizations for research or demonstration projects, and to make contracts with States, State or local educational agencies, public and private institutions of higher learning and other public or private educational or research agencies and organizations, for research and related purposes (as defined in this section), and to conduct research surveys, or demonstrations, relating to education for mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health-impaired children who by reason thereof require special education (hereunder in this section referred to as "handicapped children"). Such grants shall be made in installments in advance or by way of reimbursement, and on such conditions as the Commissioner of Education may determine. (b) The Commissioner of Education is authorized to appoint such special or technical advisory committees as he may deem necessary to advise him on matters of general policy relating to particular |