Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 3.djvu/377

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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-602—NOV. 6, 1978

92 STAT. 3009

have received a grant under subsection (a), can establish and operate one or more satellite centers which would be located in areas not served by a university affiliated facility. Such a study shall be carried out in consultation with the State Planning Council for the State in which the facility is located and where the satellite center would be established. "(2) Assessing the need for trained personnel in providing assistance to persons with developmental disabilities. "(3) Provision of service-related training to practitioners providing services to persons with developmental disabilities. " (4) Conducting an applied research program designed to produce more efficient and effective methods (A) for the delivery of services to persons with developmental disabilities, and (B) for the training of professionals, paraprofessionals, and parents who provide these services. The amount of a grant under paragraph (1) may not exceed $25,000. "(c) The Secretary may make grants to pay part of the costs of establishing satellite centers and may make grants to satellite centers to pay part of their administration and operation costs. The Secretary may approve an application for a grant under this subsection only if the feasibility of establishing or operating the satellite center for which the grant is applied for has been established by a study assisted under this section. "APPLICATIONS

"SEC. 122. (a) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978, the Secretary shall establish by regulation standards for university affiliated facilities. These standards for facilities shall reflect the special needs of persons with developmental disabilities who are of various ages, and shall include performance standards relating to each of the activities described in section 102(10). "(b) No grant may be made under section 121 unless an application therefor is submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. Such an application shall be submitted in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the Secretary may require. Sudh an application shall be approved by the Secretary only if the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that— " (1) the making of the grant will (A) not result in any decrease in the use of State, local, and other non-Federal funds for services for persons with developmental disabilities and for training of persons to provide such services, which funds would (except for such grant) be made available to the applicant, and (B) be used to supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the level of such funds; and "(2)(A) the applicant's facility is in full compliance with the standards established under subsection (a), or "(B)(i) the applicant is making substantial progress toward bringing the facility into compliance with such standards, and (ii) the facility will, not later than three years after the date of approval of the initial application or the date standards are promulgated under subsection (a), whichever is later, fully comply with such standards. " (c) The Secretary shall establish such a process for the review of applications for grants under section 121 as will ensure, to the max-

University affiliated facilities, standards. 42 USC 6032. Ante, p. 2955.

Review process,