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[81 STAT. 528]
PUBLIC LAW 90-000—MMMM. DD, 1968
[81 STAT. 528]

528

PUBLIC LAV^ 90-170-DEC. 4, 1967

[81 STAT.

GRANTS FOH COXSTHI'CTION OF t ' O M M l N I T V FACILITIKlS F(»K T II K M K N T A I J. Y KKTAKDED

77 Stat. 286.

42 us^c 267^7. 42 USC 2672.

SEC. 3. (a) Section 131 of the Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act (42 U.S.C. 2671) is amended by strikin<»; out "and $30,0()0,()(M) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "$30,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970". i^) I^t'ction 137 of such Act is amended by striking out "tVmr", and by striking out "1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "1970-. (c) Section 132 of such Act is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (d)(1) At the request of any State, a portion of any allotment or allotments of such State under this part shall be available to pay one-half (or such smaller share as the State may request) of the expenditures found necessary by the Secretary for the proper and efficient administration during such year of the State plan approved under this part; except that not more than 2 per centum of the total of the allotments of such State for a year, or $50,(XX), whichever is less, shall be available for such purpose for such year. Payments of amounts due under this paragraph may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments, as the Secretary may determine. " (2) Any amount paid under paragraph (1) to any State for any fiscal year shall be paid (m condition that there shall be expended from State sources for such year for administration of the State plan approved under this part not less than the total amount expended for such purposes from such sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967." GRANTS FOR S T A F F I N G OF C O I N I M I N I T Y M E N T A L RETARDATU^N F A C I L I T I E S

77 Stat. 282. 42 USC 2661

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SEC. 4. The Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act is further amended (1) by amending the heading thereof to read " TITLE I — F A C I L I T I E S FOR THE M E N T A L L Y R E T A R D E D ", and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new part: "PART D — G R A N T S FOR THE ( \) S T OF PROP'ESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF COMMUNITY MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITIES "AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS

"SEC. 141. (a) For the purpose of assisting in the establishment and initial operation of facilities for the mentally retarded providing all or part of a program of comprehensive services for the mentally retarded principally designed to serve the needs of the particular community or communities in or near which the facility is situated, the Secretary may, in accordance w'ith the provisions of this part, make grants to meet, for the temporary periods specified in this section, a portion of the costs (determined pursuant to regulations under section 144) of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of new facilities for the mentally retarded or of new services in facilities for the mentally retarded. "(b) Grants for such costs for any facility for the mentally retarded under this part may be made only for the period beginning with the first day of the first month for which such a grant is made and ending with the close of four years and three months after such first day; and such grants with respect to any such facility may not exceed 75 per centum of such costs for the period ending with the close of the fifteenth month following such first day, 60 per centum of such costs