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[82 STAT. 305]
PUBLIC LAW 90-000—MMMM. DD, 1968
[82 STAT. 305]

82 STAT. ]

305

PUBLIC LAW 90-391-JULY 7, 1968

year ending June 80, 1971, and for each succeeding fiscal year only such sums may be appropriated as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law. "(3) The Secretary shall pay to each State an amount equal to 90 per centum of the cost of evaluation and work adjustment services furnished to disadvantaged persons under a plan of such State approved under subsection (d), including the cost of any evaluation and work adjustment services furnished by the designated State vocational rehabilitation agency or agencies for other agencies providing services to disadvantaged individuals under another evaluation program of the State, except that the total of such payments to such State for such fiscal year may not exceed its allotment under paragraph (1) for such year. The cost of evaluation and work adjustment services shall not include any amounts paid by another public or private agency for the provision of evaluation or work adjustment services. "(4) 'Evaluation and work adjustment services' include, as appropriate in each case, such services as— " (A) a preliminary diagnostic study to determine that the individual is disadvantaged, has an employment handicap, and that services are needed; " (B) a thorough diagnostic study consisting of a comprehensive evaluation of pertment medical, psychological, vacational, educational, cultural, social, and environmental factors which bear on the individual's handicap to employment and rehabilitation potential including, to the degree needed, an evaluation of the individual's personality, intelligence level, educational achievements, work experience, vocational aptitudes and interests, personal and social adjustments, employment opportunities, and other pertinent data helpful in determining the nature and scope of services needed; " (C) services to appraise the individual's patterns of work behavior and ability to acquire occupational skills, and to develop work attitudes, work habits, work tolerance, and social and behavior patterns suitable for successful job performance, including the utilization of work, simulated or real, to assess and develop the individual's capacities to perform adequately in a work environment; " (D) any other goods or services provided to a disadvantaged individual, determined (in accordance with regulations of the Secretary) to be necessary for, and which are provided for the purpose of, ascertaining the nature of the handicap to employment and whether it may reasonably be expected the individual can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services or other services available to disadvantaged individuals; " (E) outreach, referral, and advocacy; and " (F) the administration of these evaluation and work adjustment services. As used in this.section, the term 'disadvantaged individuals' means (i) iiandicapped individuals as defined in section 11(b) of this Act, (ii) individuals disadvantaged by reason of their youth or advanced age, low educational attainments, ethnic or cultural factors, prison or delinquency records, or other conditions which constitute a barrier to employment, and (iii) other members of their families when the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to family members is necessary for the rehabilitation of an individual described in clause (i) or (ii). " (b) No payment may be made from an allotment under this section with respect to any cost with respect to which any payment is made under any other section of this Act.

Federal payments.

"Evaluation and work adjustment services.

"Disadvantaged individuals." 68 Stat. 660. 29 USC 41.

Restriction.