PUBLIC LAW 98-527—OCT. 19, 1984
98 STAT. 2663
"(A) to assist in the provision of comprehensive services to persons with developmental disabilities, with priority to those persons whose needs are not otherwise met under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other health, education, or welfare programs; "(B) to assist States in appropriate planning activities; "(C) to make grants to States and public and private, nonprofit ^encies to establish model programs, to demonstrate innovative habilitation techniques, and to train professional and paraprofessional personnel with respect to providing services to persons with developmental disabilities; "(D) to make grants to university affiliated facilities to assist them in administering and operating demonstration facilities for the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to provide specialized services for these persons; and "(E) to make grants to support a system in each State to protect the legal and human rights of all persons with developmental disabilities.
29 USC 701 note. Grants.
Grants.
Grants.
"DEFINITIONS
"SEC. 102. For purposes of this title: 42 USC 600i. "(1) The term 'State' includes Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the District of Columbia. "(2) The term 'facility for persons with developmental disabilities' means a facility, or a specified portion of a facility, designed primarily for the delivery of one or more services to persons with one or more developmental disabilities. "(3) The terms 'nonprofit facility for persons with developmental disabilities' and 'nonprofit private institution of higher learning' mean, respectively, a facility for persons with developmental disabilities and an institution of higher learning which are owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. The term 'nonprofit private agency or organization' means an agency or organization which is such a corporation or association or which is owned and operated by one or more of such corporations or associations. "(4) The term 'construction' includes construction of new buildings, acquisition, expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings, and initial equipment of any such buildings (including medical, transportation, and recreation facilities); including architect's fees, but excluding the cost of offsite improvements and the cost of the acquisition of land. "(5) The term 'cost of construction' means the amount found by the Secretary to be necessary for the construction of a project. "(6) The term 'title', when used with reference to a site for a project, means a fee simple, or such other estate or interest (including a leasehold on which the rental does not exceed 4 per centum of the value of the land) as the Secretary finds sufficient to assure for a period of not less than fifty years undisturbed use and possession for the purposes of construction and operation of the project.
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