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(A) to each of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands may not be less than $160,000; and

(B) to each of the several States, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia, may not be less than $300,000.

(5) In determining, for purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the extent of need in any State for services for persons with developmental disabilities, the Secretary shall take into account the scope and extent of the services described, pursuant to section 122(b)(2)(C), in the State plan of the State.

(b) Whenever the State plan approved in accordance with section 122 provides for participation of more than one State agency in administering or supervising the administration of designated portions of the State plan, the State may apportion its allotment among such agencies in a manner which, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, is reasonably related to the responsibilities assigned to such agencies in carrying out the purposes of the State plan. Funds so apportioned to State agencies may be combined with other State or Federal funds authorized to be spent for other purposes, provided the purposes of the State plan will receive proportionate benefit from the combination.

(c) Whenever the State plan approved in accordance with section 122 provides for cooperative or joint effort between States or between or among agencies, public or private, in more than one State, portions of funds allotted to one or more such cooperating States may be combined in accordance with the agreements between the agencies involved.

(d) The amount of an allotment to a State for a fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required by the State during the period for which it is available for the purpose for which allotted shall be available for reallotment by the Secretary from time to time, on such date or dates as the Secretary may fix (but not earlier than thirty days after the Secretary has published notice of the intention of the Secretary to make such reallotment in the Federal Register), to other States with respect to which such a determination has not been made, in proportion to the original allotments of such States for such fiscal year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary estimates such State needs and will be able to use during such period; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount so reallotted to a State for a fiscal year shall be deemed to be a part of its allotment under subsection (a) for such fiscal year.

PAYMENTS TO THE STATES FOR PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION AND

SERVICES

SEC. 126. [6026] From each State's allotments for a fiscal year under section 125, the State shall be paid the Federal share of the expenditures, other than expenditures for construction, incurred during such year under its State plan approved under this part. Such payments shall be made from time to time in advance on the

basis of estimates by the Secretary of the sums the State will expend under the State plan, except that such adjustments as may be necessary shall be made on account of previously made underpayments or overpayments under this section.

WITHHOLDING OF PAYMENTS FOR PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

SEC. 127. [6027] Whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State Planning Council and the appropriate State agency designated pursuant to section 122(b)(1) finds that

(1) there is a failure to comply substantially with any of the provisions required by section 122 to be included in the State plan; or

(2) there is a failure to comply substantially with any regulations of the Secretary which are applicable to this part, the Secretary shall notify such State Council and agency or agencies that further payments will not be made to the State under section 125 (or, in the discretion of the Secretary, that further payments will not be made to the State under section 125 for activities in which there is such failure), until the Secretary is satisfied that there will no longer be such failure. Until the Secretary is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no further payment to the State under section 125, or shall limit further payment under section 125 to such State to activities in which there is no such failure.

NONDUPLICATION

SEC. 128. [6028] In determining the amount of any State's Federal share of the expenditures incurred by it under a State plan approved under section 122, there shall be disregarded (1) any portion of such expenditures which are financed by Federal funds provided under any provision of law other than section 125, and (2) the amount of any non-Federal funds required to be expended as a condition of receipt of such Federal funds.

APPEALS BY STATES

SEC. 129. [6029] If any State is dissatisfied with the Secretary's action under section 122(c) or section 127, such State may appeal to the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State is located, by filing a petition with such court within sixty days after such action. A copy of the petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary, or any officer designated by the Secretary for that purpose. The Secretary thereupon shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which the Secretary based the action, as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary or to set it aside, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, but until the filing of the record, the Secretary may modify or set aside the order of the Secretary. The findings of the Secretary as to the facts, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive, but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case to the

Secretary to take further evidence, and the Secretary may thereupon make new or modified findings of the fact and may modify the previous action of the Secretary, and shall file in the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence. The judgment of the court affirming or setting aside, in whole or in part, any action of the Secretary shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code. The commencement of proceedings under this section shall not, unless so specifically ordered by the court, operate as a stay of the Secretary's action.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 130. [6030] For allotments under section 125, there are authorized to be appropriated $50,250,000 for fiscal year 1985, $53,400,000 for fiscal year 1986, and $56,500,000 for fiscal year 1987.

PART C-PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

PURPOSE

SEC. 141. [6041] It is the purpose of this part to provide for allotments to support a system in each State to protect the legal and human rights of persons with developmental disabilities in accordance with section 142.

SYSTEM REQUIRED

SEC. 142. [6042] (a) In order for a State to receive an allotment under part B

(1) the State must have in effect a system to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities; (2) such system must

(A) have the authority to pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to ensure the protection of the rights of such persons who are receiving treatment, services, or habilitation within the State and to provide information on and referral to programs and services addressing the needs of persons with developmental disabilities;

(B) not be administered by the State Planning Council; (C) be independent of any agency which provides treatment, services, or habilitation to persons with developmental disabilities; and

(D) except as provided in subsection (b), be able to obtain access to the records of a person with developmental disabilities who resides in a facility for persons with developmental disabilities if

(i) a complaint has been received by the system from or on behalf of such person; and

(ii) such person does not have a legal guardian or the State or the designee of the State is the legal guardian of such person;

(3) the State must provide assurances to the Secretary that funds allotted to the State under this section will be used to supplement and increase the level of funds that would otherwise be made available for the purposes for which Federal funds are provided and not to supplant such non-Federal funds;

(4) the State must provide assurances to the Secretary that such system will be provided with a copy of each annual survey report and plan of corrections for cited deficiencies made pursuant to section 1902(a)(31)(B) of the Social Security Act with respect to any intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded in the State within 30 days after the completion of each such report or plan; and

(5) the State must provide assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the agency implementing the system will not be redesignated unless there is good cause for the redesignation and unless notice has been given of the intention to make such redesignation to persons with developmental disabilities or their representatives.

(b) Prior to October 1, 1986, the provisions of paragraph (2)(D) of subsection (a) shall not apply to any State in which the laws of the State prohibit the system required under such subsection from obtaining access to the records of a person with developmental disabilities under the conditions described in such paragraph.

(c)(1) To assist States in meeting the requirements of subsection (a), the Secretary shall allot to the States the amounts appropriated under section 143. Allotments and reallotments of such sums shall be made on the same basis as the allotments and reallotments are made under the first sentence of subsection (a)(1) and subsection (d) of section 125, except that in any case in which

(A) the total amount appropriated under section 143 for a fiscal year is at least $11,000,000

(i) the allotment of each of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for such fiscal year shall not be less than $80,000; and

(ii) the allotment to each of the several States, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia for such fiscal year shall not be less than $150,000; or

(B) the total amount appropriated under section 143 for a fiscal year is less than $11,000,000, the allotment to each State (other than Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) shall not be less than $50,000.

(2) A State may use not more than 5 percent of any allotment under this subsection for the costs of monitoring the administration of the system required under subsection (a).

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if the aggregate of the amounts of the allotments to be made in accordance with such paragraph for any fiscal year exceeds the total of the amounts appropriated for such allotments under section 143, the amount of a State's allotment for such fiscal year shall bear the same ratio to

the amount otherwise determined under such paragraph as the total of the amounts appropriated for that year under section 143 bears to the aggregate amount required to make an allotment to each of the States in accordance with paragraph (1).

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 143. [6043] For allotments under section 142, there are authorized to be appropriated $13,750,000 for fiscal year 1985, $14,600,000 for fiscal year 1986, and $15,500,000 for fiscal year 1987. The provisions of section 1913 of title 18, United States Code, shall be applicable to all moneys authorized under the provisions of this section.

PART D-UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED FACILITIES

PURPOSE

SEC. 151. [6061] The purpose of this part is to provide for grants to university affiliated facilities to assist in the provision of interdisciplinary training, the conduct of service demonstration programs, and the dissemination of information which will increase and support the independence, productivity, and integration into the community of persons with developmental disabilities.

GRANT AUTHORITY

SEC. 152. [6062] (a) From appropriations under section 154, the Secretary shall make grants to university affiliated facilities to assist in the administration and operation of the activities described in section 102(13).

(b) The Secretary may make one or more grants to a university affiliated facility receiving a grant under subsection (a) to support one or more of the following activities:

(1) Conducting

(A) a study of the feasibility of establishing a university affiliated facility or a satellite center in an area not served by a university affiliated facility, including an assessment of the needs of the area for such a facility or center; or

(B) a study of the ways in which such university affiliated facility, singly or jointly with other university affiliated facilities which have received a grant under subsection (a), can assist in establishing one or more satellite centers which would be located in areas not served by a university affiliated facility.

A study under subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B) shall be carried out in consultation with the State Planning Council for the State in which the university affiliated facility conducting the study is located and the State Planning Council for the State in which the university affiliated facility or satellite center would be established.

(2) Provision of service-related training to parents of persons with developmental disabilities, professionals, volunteers, or other personnel to enable such parents, professionals, volunteers, or personnel to provide services to increase or maintain

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