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 632 Approval of State plans. Requirements . Ap prova l by Chief of Children's Bu reau ; notification. Payment to States. Amount to be paid quart erly. To be one-h alf of amount expended un- der State plan. M ethod of c omput - ing and pay ing amounts. Estimates to be sub- mitte d p rior to begin- ning of quarter. B asis of es timates. Certification of amount by Secretary of Labor; adjustments. Payments ; prior au- dit waived. 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 531 . AUGUST 14, 1935. APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS SEC. 513 . (a) A State plan for services for crippled children must (1) provide for financial participation by the State ; (2) provide for the administration of the plan by a State agency or the super- vision of the administration of the plan by a State agency ; (3) provide such methods of administration (other than those relating to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel) as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan ; (4) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and con- taining such information, as the Secretary of Labor may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; (5) provide for carrying out the purposes specified in section 511 ; and (6) provide for cooperation with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations and with any agency in such State charged with administering State laws providing for voc ational rehabil itation of phys ically h andicap ped chi ldren. (b) The Chief of the Children's Bureau shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a) and shall thereupon notify the Secretary of Labor and the State agency of his approval. PAYME NT TO STAT ES SEC. 514. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allot- ments available under section 512, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for services for crippled children, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter com- mencing July 1, 1935, an amount, which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal to one-half of the total sum expended during such quarter for carrying out such plan. (b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows (1) The Secretary of Labor shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quar- te r under the pro visions of subs ection (a), such estimate to be based on (A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such subsection and stating the amount appro- pr iate d or made avai labl e by the State and its poli tical sub divis ions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one-half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, and (B) such investigation as he may find necessary. (2) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so esti- mated by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which the Secretary of Labor finds that his estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less th an the amount w hich sh ould hav e been paid to the Sta te for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Secretary of Labor for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the Stat e, at th e time or times fixed by the Secretar y of La bor, the amount so certified.