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Grants or contracts.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 95-602—NOV. 6, 1978 containing an assessment of the amounts required to be expended by States and by political subdivisions thereof to provide handcapped individuals with full access to all programs and activities receiving Federal assistance. "(2) The Board may make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private organizations to carry out its duties under subsections (b) and (c). The Board may also make grants to any designated State unit for the purpose of conducting studies to provide the cost assessments required by paragraph (1). Before including in such report the findings of any study conducted for the Board under a grant or contract to provide the Board with such cost assessments, the Board shall take all necessary steps to validate the accuracy of any such findings. "(i) There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the duties and functions of the Board under this section such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year ending before October 1, 1982, but in no event shall the amount appropriated for any one fiscal year exceed $3,000,000.". NONDISCRIMINATION UNDER FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

29 USC 794.

SEC. 119. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is amended— (1) in the section heading by inserting "AND PROGRAMS" after "GRANTS"; and

Regulations. Proposals, copies to congressional committees.

(2) by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency or by the United States Postal Service. The head of each such agency shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the amendments to this section made by the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Act of 1978. Copies of any proposed regulation shall be submitted to appropriate authorizing committees of the Congress, and such regulation may take effect no earlier than the thirtieth day after the date on which such regulation is so submitted to such committees.". NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISIONS; INTERAGENCY COUNCIL; DUTIES

SECRETARIAL

SEC. 120. (a) Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sections: "REMEDIES AND ATTORNEYS' FEES

29 USC 794a.

29 USC 791.

"SEC. 505. (a)(1) The remedies, procedures, and rights set forth in section 717 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-16), including the application of sections 706(f) through 706 (k) (42 U.S.C. 20006-5 (f) through (k)), shall be available, with respect to any complaint under section 501 of this Act, to any employee or applicant for employment aggrieved by the final disposition of such complaint, or by the failure to take final action on such complaint. In fashioning an equitable or affirmative action remedy under such section, a court may take into account the reasonableness of the cost of any necessary work place accommodation, and the availability of alteriiatives therefor or other appropriate relief in order to achieve an equitable and appropriate remedy.

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