Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/741

 PUBLIC LAW 94-482—OCT. 12, 1976

90 STAT. 2209

"(5) in the case of assistance under section 188, set forth the qualifications of the staff who will be responsible for the program for which assistance is sought. "(b) No grant or contract may be made under section 184 directly to a local educational agency or a postsecondary educational institution or a private vocational training institution or any other eligible agency or organization unless that agency, institution, or organization has submitted the application to the State board established under section 104 of this Act, or in the case of a State that does not have such a board, the similar State agency, for comment and includes the comment of that board or agency with the application. "APPLICATION APPROVAL BY THE COMMISSIONER

"SEC. 189B. (a) The Commissioner may approve an application for 20 USC 2421. assistance under this subpart only if— "(1) the application meets the requirements set forth in subsection (a) of the previous section; " (2) in the case of an application submitted for assistance under section 184 to an agency, institution, or organization other than the State board established under section 104 of this Act, the requirement of subsection (b) of the previous section is met; "(3) in the case of an application submitted for assistance under section 184 or section 186 the Commissioner determines that the program is consistent with criteria established by him, where feasible, after consultation with the State board established under section 104 of this Act, for achieving equitable distribution of assistance under this subpart within that State; and "(4) in the case of an application submitted for assistance under section 186 the Commissioner determines that the applicant institution actually has an ongoing vocational training program in the field for which persons are being trained; and that the applicant institution can provide instructors with adequate language capabilities in the language other than English to be used in the bilingual job training program for which the persons are being trained. "(b) An amendment to an application shall, except as the Commissioner may otherwise provide, be subject to approval in the same manner as the original application. "Subpart 4—Emergency Assistance for Remodeling and Eenovation of Vocational Education Facilities "PURPOSE

"SEC. 191. It is the purpose of this part to provide emergency assist- 20 USC 2441. ance, for a limited period of time, to local educational agencies in urban and rural areas which are unable to provide vocational education designed to meet today's manpower needs due to the age of their vocational education facilities or the obsolete nature of the equipment used for vocational training, in order to assist such agencies in the modernization of facilities and equipment and the conversion of academic facilities necessary to assure that such facilities will be able to offer vocational education programs which give reasonable promise of of employment, including the remodeling and renovation of such facilities to make the facilities comply with the requirements of the Act of August 2, 1968, commonly known as the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968. 42 USC 4151.

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