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PUBLIC LAW 565-AUG. 3, 1954

prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount. "(2) From each State's allotment under this section for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay to such State a portion of the cost of approved projects for the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services (including their administration) under the State plan. The Secretary shall approve any project for purposes of this section only if the plan of such State approved under section 5 includes such project or is modified to include it and only if he finds the project constitutes an extension or improvement of vocational rehabilitation services under the State plan or will contribute materially to such an extension or improvement. "(b) Payments under this section with respect to any project may be made for a period of not to exceed three years beginning with the commencement of the first fiscal year for which any payment is made with respect to such project from an allotment under this section. To the extent permitted by the State's allotment under this section, such payments with respect to any project shall be equal to 75 per centum of the cost of such project, except that, at the request of the State, such payments may be less than such percentage of the cost of such project. "(c) No payment may be made from an allotment under this section with respect to any cost with respect to which any payment is made under section 2.

HEW payment.

Project approval.

Duration.

Restriction.

"GRANTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

"SEC. 4. (a) From the sums available therefor for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall make grants to States and public and other nonprofit organizations and agencies (1) for paying part of the cost of projects for research, demonstrations, training, and traineeships, and projects for the establishment of special facilities and services, which, in the judgment of the Secretary, hold promise of making a substantial contribution to the solution of vocational rehabilitation problems common to all or several States, and (2) for planning, preparing for, and initiating, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, a substantial nationwide expansion of vocational rehabilitation programs in the States. No grant shall be made under clause (1) or clause (2) of this subsection for furnishing to an individual any one course of study extending for a period in excess of two years. Any ^rant of funds under this subsection which will be used for direct services to physically handicapped individuals or for establishing facilities which will render direct services to such individuals must have the prior approval of the appropriate State agency. " (b) The Secretary shall be authorized to cooperate in assisting with the financing of a pilot demonstration rehabilitation center in the metropolitan Washington area to be used as a guide for rehabilitation centers which may be set up later in other parts of the country. Sums made available for such a pilot demonstration center in the Washington area may be used during such initial period as the Secretary may determine for such services as hospitalization, domiciliary care, and rehabilitation training, including costs of board and room of trainees and other services essential to the program, as in the discretion of the Secretary deems desirable. The services of such a pilot demonstration rehabilitation center in the metropolitan Washington area shall be made available to area civil service employees as well as to other patients. "(c) Payments under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement for services performed and purchases made, as may

Research, training, e t c.

Program expansion.

Limitations.

Direct servicei; Approval.

Dem o n s t r ation rehabilitation center, Washington, D. C., area.

Payments.

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