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PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973

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DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

SEC. 2. The purpose of this Act is to provide a statutory basis for the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and to authorize programs to— (1) develop and implement comprehensive and continuing State plans for meeting the current and future needs for providing vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals and to provide such services for the benefit of such individuals, serving jfirst those with the most severe handicaps, so that they may prepare for and engage in gainful employment; (2) evaluate the rehabilitation potential of handicapped individuals; (3) conduct a study to develop methods of providing rehabilitation services to meet the current and future needs of handicapped individuals for whom a vocational goal is not possible or feasible so that they may improve their ability to live with greater independence and self-sufficiency; (4) assist in the construction and improvement of rehabilitation facilities; (5) develop new and innovative methods of applying the most advanced medical technology, scientific achievement, and psychological and social knowledge to solve rehabilitation problems and develop new and innovative methods of providing rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals through research, special projects, and demonstrations; (6) initiate and expand services to groups of handicapped individuals (including those who are homebound or institutionalized) who have been underserved in the past; (7) conduct various studies and experiments to focus on long neglected problem areas; (8) promote and expand employment opportunities in the public and private sectors for handicapped individuals and to place such individuals in employment; (9) establish client assistance pilot projects; (10) provide assistance for the purpose of increasing the number of rehabilitation personnel and increasing their skills through training; and (11) evaluate existing approaches to architectural and transportation barriers confronting handicapped individuals, develop new such approaches, enforce statutory and regulatory standards and requirements regarding barrier-free construction of public facilities and study and develop solutions to existing architectural and transportation barriers impeding handicapped individuals. REHABILITATION

SERVICES

ADMINISTRATION

SEC. 3. (a) There is established in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Rehabilitation Services Administration which

Establishment.

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