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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-602—NOV. 6, 1978 short-term and in-service training) of teachers who are involved in providing instruction to deaf individuals but who are not certified as teachers of deaf individuals, and (ii) funds for such in-service training shall be provided under this section only through funds appropriated under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act; and " (E) contain such other information as the Secretary may require. "(d) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $34,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, $45,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982. There are further authorized to be appropriated for each such fiscal year such additional sums as the Congress may determine to be necessary to carry out this section.".

92 STAT. 2971

20 USC 1401 note.

Appropriation authorization.

COMPREHENSIVE CENTERS

SEC. 115. (a) The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is amended by inserting Ante, p. 2963. after section 304 the following new section: "COMPREHENSIVE REHABILITATION CENTERS

"SEC. 305. (a)(1) In order to provide a focal point in communities Grants. for the development and delivery of services designed primarily for 29 USC 775. handicapped persons, the Commissioner may make grants to any designated State unit to establish and operate comprehensive rehabilitation centers. The centers shall be established in order to provide a broad range of services to handicapped individuals, including information and referral services, counseling services, and job placement, health, educational, social, and recreational services, as well as to provide facilities for recreational activities. " (2) To the maximum extent practicable, such centers shall provide, upon request, to local governmental units and other public and private nonprofit entities located in the area such information and technical assistance (including support personnel such as interpreters for the deaf) as may be necessary to assist those entities in complying with this 29 USC 794. Act, particularly the requirements of section 504. "(b) No grant may be made under this section unless an application Application. therefor has been submitted to and approved by the Commissioner. The Commissioner may not approve an application for a grant unless the application— ^'(1) contains assurances that the designated State unit will use funds provided by such grant in accordance with subsections (c) and (d); and "(2) contains such other information, and is submitted in such form and in accordance with such procedures, as the Commissioner may require. "(c)(1) The designated State unit may— "(A) in accordance with subsection (e) make grants to units of general purpose local government or to other public or nonprofit private agencies or organizations and may make contracts with any agency or organization to pay not to exceed 80 percent of the cost of— ^ "(i) leasing facilities to serve as comprehensive rehabilitation centers; "(ii) expanding, remodeling, or altering facilities to the extent necessary to adapt them to serve as comprehensive rehabilitation centers;