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 PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978

92 STAT. 2241

in subsection (b). That application may be submitted jointly for all programs covered by the application, or it may be submitted separately for each such program or for groups of programs. Each application submitted under this section must be approved by each official, agency, board, or other entity within the State which, under State law, is primarily responsible for supervision of the activities conducted under each program covered by the application. "(b) An application submitted under subsection (a) shall set forth assurances, satisfactory to the Commissioner— " (1) that each program will be administered in accordance with all applicable statutes, regulations, program plans, and applications; "(2) that the control of funds provided under each program and title to property acquired with program funds will be in a public agency, or in a nonprofit private agency, institution, or organization if the statute authorizing the program provides for grants to those entities, and that the public agency or nonprofit private agency, institution, or organization will administer those funds and property; "(3) that the State will adopt and use proper methods of administering each program to which this part applies including— "(A) monitoring of agencies, institutions, and organizations responsible for carrying out each program, and the enforcement of any obligations imposed on those agencies, institutions, and organizations under law, "(B) providing technical assistance, where necessary, to those agencies, institutions, and organizations, "(C) encouraging the adoption by those agencies, institutions, and organizations for promising or innovative educational techniques, " (D) the dissemination throughout the State of information on the program requirements and succcessful practices, and " (E) the correction of deficiencies in program operations that are identified through monitoring or evaluation; "(4) that the State will evaluate the effectiveness of covered programs in meeting their statutory objectives, at such intervals (not less often than once every three years) and in accordance with such procedures as the Commissioner may prescribe by regulation, and that the State will cooperate in carrying out any evaluation of each program conducted by or for the Secretary or other Federal official; " (5) that the State will use such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as will insure proper disbursement of and acounting for Federal funds paid to the State under each program; "(6) that the State will make reports to the Commissioner Reports, (including reports on the results of evaluations required under paragraph (4)) as may reasonably be necessary to enable the Commissioner to perform his duties under each program, and that the State will maintain such records, in accordance with the requirements of section 437 of the General Education Provisions Act, and afford access to the records as the Commissioner may find Post, p. 2346. necessary to carry out his duties;

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