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 100 STAT. 284

PUBLIC LAW 99-272—APR. 7, 1986

needed prior to the final determination of their eligibility for such benefits or for further rehabilitation and related services; (E) the standards, policies, and procedures which are applied or used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to work evaluations in order to determine whether such standards, policies, and procedures will provide appropriate screening criteria for work evaluation referrals in the case of applicants for and recipients of benefits based on disability; and (F) possible criteria for assessing the probability that an applicant for or recipient of benefits based on disability will benefit from rehabilitation services, taking into consideration not only whether the individual involved will be able after rehabilitation to engage in substantial gainful activity but also whether rehabilitation services can reasonably be expected to improve the individual's functioning so that he or she will bo able to live independently or work in a sheltered environment. (2) For purposes of this subsection, "work evaluation" includes (with respect to any individual) a determination of— (A) such individual's skills, ' ' (B) the work activities or types of work activity for which such individual's skills are insufficient or inadequate, (C) the work activities or types of work activity for which such individual might potentially be trained or rehabilitated, (D) the length of time for which such individual is capable of sustaining work (including, in the case of the mentally impaired, the ability to cope with the stress of competitive work), and (E) any modifications which may be necessary, in work activities for which such individual might be trained or rehabilitated, in order to enable him or her to perform such activities. (d) PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO COUNCIL; COMPENSATION OF MEM-

BERS.—(1) The Disability Advisory Council is authorized to engage such technical assistance, including actuarial services, as may be required to carry out its functions, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in addition, make available to the Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance and such actuarial and other pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services as the Council may require to carry out such functions. (2) Appointed members of the Council, while serving on business of the Council (inclusive of traveltime), shall receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, 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, United States Code, for persons in the Government employed intermittently. (e) REPORTS.—The Disability Advisory Council shall submit a report (including any interim reports the Council may have issued) of its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services not later than December 31, 1986; and such report and recommendations shall thereupon be transmitted to the Congress and to the Board of Trustees of the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. (f) TERMINATION.—After the date of the transmittal to the Congress of the report required by subsection (e), the Disability Advisory Council shall cease to exist.

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