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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 another 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 rehabilitation services furnished under such pro

grams with the requirement of section 105 (a) (4) 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 are two State agencies designated under subparagraph (A) so much of the State plan as does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily concerned with vocational rehabilitation, or vocational and other rehabilitation, of disabled 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

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major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State;

(2) provide, except in the case of agencies described in paragraph (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 disabled 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 paragraph (1) (B) (ii), either that such unit shall be

so located and have such status, or that the director

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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 pursu

ant to paragraph (1), such State may, if it so de

sires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational 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 paragraph (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 its political subdivisions;

(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 19 larger numbers of handicapped individuals or group of

handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the 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

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rehabilitation services is met from funds made available

by a political subdivision of the State (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such subdivision by a private agency, organization, or individual);

(5) show the plan, policies, and methods to be followed in carrying out the work under the State plan and in its administration and supervision, and in case vocational rehabilitation services cannot be provided all eligi

ble handicapped individuals who apply for such services, show the order to be followed in selecting those to whom vocational rehabilitation services will be provided;

(6) provide 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;

(7) contain (A) provisions relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, 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 rehabilita

tion services, but the Secretary shall exercise no authority

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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 pursu

ant to paragraph (1), such State may, if it so de

sires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational 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 paragraph (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 its political subdivisions;

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(4) provide that the plan shall be in effect in all litical 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 larger numbers of handicapped individuals or group of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the 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