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Handicapped migratory agricultural workers and s e a s o n a l farmworkers. Ante, p. 363.

64 Stat. 1100. 20 USC 236. 81 Stat. 709. 42 USC 2 8 6 1. 78 Stat. 920. 7 USC 2041 note. Employment programs, contract authority.

PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973

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improving rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals (especially those with the most severe handicaps) including individuals with spinal cord injuries, older blind individuals, and deaf individuals, whose maximum vocational potential has not been reached, and (2) for applying new types or patterns of services or devices (including opportunities for new careers for handicapped individuals for other individuals in programs servicing handicapped individuals). Projects and demon^rations providing services to individuals with spinal cord injuries shall include provisions to— (A) establish, on an appropriate regional basis, a multidisciplinary system of providing vocational and other rehabilitation services, specijfically designed to meet the special needs of individuals with spinal cord injuries, including acute care as well as periodic inpatient or outpatient f ollowup and services; (B) demonstrate and evaluate the benefits to individuals with spinal cord injuries served in, and the degree of cost effectiveness of, such a regional system; (C) demonstrate and evaluate existing, new, and improved methods and equipment essential to the care, management, and rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injuries; and (D) demonstrate and evaluate methods of community outreach for individuals with spinal cord injuries and community education in connection with the problems of such individuals in areas such as housing, transportation, recreation, employment, and community activities. (c) The Secretary, subject to the provisions of section 306, is authorized to make grants to any State agency designated pursuant to a State plan approved under section 101, or to any local agency participating in the administration of such a plan, to pay up to 90 per centum of the cost of projects or demonstrations for the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, as determined in accordance with rules prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, are migratory agricultural workers or seasonal farmworkers, and to members of their families (whether or not handicapped) who are with them, including maintenance and transportation of such individuals and members of their families where necessary to the rehabilitation of such individuals. Maintenance payments under this section shall be consistent with any maintenance payments made to other handicapped individuals in the State under this Act. Such grants shall be conditioned upon satisfactory assurance that in the provision of such services there will be appropriate cooperation between the grantee and other public or nonprofit agencies and organizations having special skills and experience in the provision of services to migratory agricultural workers, seasonal farmworkers, or their families. This subsection shall be administered in coordination with other programs serving migrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the Migrant Health Act, and the F a r m Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963. (d) The Secretary is authorized to make contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services (determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary) as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment.

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