administration of state plans

administration of state plans Sec. 508. (a) The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any application submitted under section 504, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State educational agency submitting the application reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. (b) Whenever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State educational agency administering a program under an application approved under this title, finds— (1) that the application has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of section 504(a), or (2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision, the Commissioner shall notify such State educational agency that the State will not be regarded as eligible to participate in the program under this title until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply.