PUBLIC LAW 105-220—AUG. 7, 1998 112 STAT. 1097 under this Act, the Commissioner shall be guided by general policies of the National Council on Disability established under title IV of this Act. "(b) The Secretary shall take whatever action is necessary to ensure that funds appropriated pursuant to this Act are expended only for the programs, personnel, and administration of programs carried out under this Act. " ADVANCE FUNDING "SEC. 4. (a) For the purpose of affording adequate notice of 29 USC 703. funding available under this Act, appropriations under this Act are authorized to be included in the appropriation Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. "(b) In order to effect a transition to the advance funding method of timing appropriation action, the authority provided by subsection (a) of this section shall apply notwithstanding that its initial application will result in the enactment in the same year (whether in the same appropriation Act or otherwise) of two separate appropriations, one for the then current fiscal year and one for the succeeding fiscal year. "JOINT FUNDING "SEC. 5. Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the President, Regulations. and to the extent consistent with the other provisions of this Act, 29 USC 704. where funds are provided for a single project by more than one Federal agency to an agency or organization assisted under this Act, the Federal agency principally involved may be designated to act for all in administering the funds provided, and, in such cases, a single non-Federal share requirement may be established according to the proportion of funds advanced by each agency. When the principal agency involved is the Rehabilitation Services Administration, it may waive any grant or contract requirement (as defined by such regulations) under or pursuant to any law other than this Act, which requirement is inconsistent with the similar requirements of the administering agency under or pursuant to this Act. "DEFINITIONS "SEC. 6. For the purposes of this Act: 29 USC 705. "(1) The term 'administrative costs' means expenditures incurred in the performance of administrative functions under the vocational rehabilitation program carried out under title I, including expenses related to program planning, development, monitoring, and evaluation, including expenses for— "(A) quality assurance; "(B) budgeting, accounting, financial management, information systems, and related data processing; "(C) providing information about the program to the public; "(D) technical assistance and support services to other State agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and businesses and industries, except for technical assistance and support services described in section 103(b)(5);
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