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 87 STAT. ]

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PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973

(16) provide for (A) periodic review and reevaluation of the status of handicapped individuals placed in extended employment in rehabilitation facilities (including workshops) to determine the feasibility of their employment, or training for employment, in the competitive labor market, and (B) maximum efforts to place such individuals in such employment or training whenever it is determined to be feasible; (17) provide that where such State plan includes provisions for the construction of rehabilitation facilities— (A) the Federal share of the cost of construction thereof for a fiscal year will not exceed an amount equal to 10 per centum of the State's allotment for such year, (B) the provisions of section 306 shall be applicable to such construction and such provisions shall be deemed to apply to such construction, and (C) there shall be compliance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe designed to assure that no State will reduce its efforts in providing other vocational rehabilitation services (other than for the establishment of rehabilitation facilities) because its plan includes such provisions for construction; (18) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the State agency designated pursuant to clause (1) (or each State agency if two are so designated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of individuals and groups thereof who are recipients of vocational rehabilitation services (or, in appropriate cases, their parents or guardians), working in the field of vocational rehabilitation, and providers of vocational rehabilitation services; and (19) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the continuing studies required under clause (15) of this subsection, as well as an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in meeting the goals and priorities set forth in the plan, will form the basis for the submission, from time to time as the Secretary may require, of appropriate amendments to the plan. (b) The Secretary shall approve any plan which he finds fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a) of this section, and he shall disapprove any plan which does not fulfill such conditions. Prior to such disapproval, the Secretary shall notify a State of his intention to disapprove its plan, and he shall afford such State reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing. (c) Whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of the State plan approved under this section, finds

that— (1) the plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section; or (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision of such plan, the Secretary shall notify such State agency that no further payments will be made to the State under this title (or, in his discretion, that such further payments will be reduced, in accordance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe, or that further payments will not be made to the State only for the projects under the parts of the State plan affected by such failure), until he is satisfied there is no longer

Employment review and r e e v a l uation.

State f a c i l i t i e s, construction <;Ost£ Federal share.

Post.

p. 384.

Policy planning, trainee participation.

Plan disapproval, hearing opportunity.

Noncompliance, payment limitation.

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