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Reports.

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Community r e sources, utilization.

Disabled Federal employees.

D i s a b l e d public safety officers.

Residence requirement, prohibition. Continuing studies.

PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973

[87 STAT.'

provided under the plan in accordance with such program, and (C) records of the characteristics of each applicant will be kept specifying, as to those individuals who apply for services under this title and are determined not to be eligible therefor, the reasons for such determinations; (10) provide that the State agency will make such reports in such form, containing such information (including the data described in subclause (C) of clause (9) of this subsection, periodic estimates of the population of handicapped individuals eligible for services under this Act in such State, specifications of the number of such individuals who will be served with funds provided under this Act and the outcomes and service goals to be achieved for such individuals in each priority category specified in accordance with clause (5) of this subsection, and the service costs for each such category), and at such time as the Secretary may require to carry out his functions under this title, and comply with such provisions as he may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; (11) provide for entering into cooperative arrangements with, and the utilization of the services and facilities of, the State agencies administering the State's public assistance programs, other programs for handicapped individuals, veterans programs, manpower programs, and public employment offices, and the Social Security Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Veterans' Administration, and other Federal, State, and local public agencies providing services related to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; (12) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that, in the provision of vocational rehabilitation services, maximum utilization shall be made of public or other vocational or technical training facilities or other appropriate resources in the community; (13)(A) provide that vocational rehabilitation services provided under the State plan shall be available to any civil employee of the United States disabled while in the performance of his duty on the same terms and conditions as apply to other persons, and (B) provide that special consideration will be given to the rehabilitation under this Act of a handicapped individual whose handicapping condition arises from a disability sustained in the line of duty while such individual was performing as a public safety officer and the proximate cause of such disability was a criminal act, apparent criminal act, or a hazardous condition resulting directly from the officer's performance of duties in direct connection with the enforcement, execution, and administration of law or fire prevention, firefighting, or related public safety activities; (14) provide that no residence requirement will be imposed which excludes from services under the plan any individual who is present in the State; (15) provide for continuing statewide studies of the needs of handicapped individuals and how these needs may be most effectively met (including the State's needs for rehabilitation facilities) with a view toward the relative need for services to significant segments of the population of handicapped individuals and the need for expansion of services to those individuals with the most severe handicaps; r. v ,.-c

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