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 PUBLIC LAW 94-103—OCT. 4, 1975 (2) The development of recommendations for standards and quality assurance mechanisms (including enforcement mechanisms) for residential facilities and community agencies providing treatment, services, or habilitation for persons with developmental disabilities which standards and mechanisms will assure the rights stated in section 111 of the Act. Such recommendations shall be based upon performance criteria for measuring and evaluating the developmental progress of persons with developmental disabilities which criteria are consistent with criteria used in the evaluation system developed under section 110 of the Act. (3) The development of recommendations for changes in Federal law and regulations administered by the Secretary after taking into account the review and evaluation under paragraph (1) and the recommended standards or mechanisms developed under paragraph (2). (b)(1) The Secretary may in consultation with the National Advisory Council on Services and Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled, obtain (through grants or contracts) the assistance of public and private entities in carrying out subsection (a). (2) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with appropriate public and private entities and individuals for the purpose of receiving their expert assistance, advice, and recommendations. Such agencies and individuals shall include persons with developmental disabilities, representative of such individuals, the appropriate councils of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, providers of health care, and State agencies. Persons to be consulted shall include the following officers of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: The Commissioner of the Medical Services Administration, the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, the Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the Assistant Secretary for Human Development, the Commissioner of the Community Services Administration, and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. (c) The Secretary shall within eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act complete the review and evaluation and development of recommendations prescribed by subsection (a) and shall make a report to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives on such review and evaluation and recommendations. TITLE III —MISCELLANEOUS

89 STAT. 505

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Ante, p. 501.

Report to congressional committees,

REPORT AND STUDY

SEC. 301. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 42 USC 6001 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary") shall, in note. accordance with section 101(7) of the Act (defining the term "developmental disability") (as amended by title I of this Act), determine Ante, p. 496 the conditions of persons which should be included as developmental

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