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administration Sec. 400. (a) In carrying out his duties under this Act, the Secretary shall— (1) cooperate with, and render technical assistance (directly or by grant or contract) to States in matters relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; (2) provide short-term training and instruction in technical matters relating to vocational rehabilitation services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for any one course of study for a period in excess of four years, and such training, instruction, fellowships, and traineeships may be in the fields of rehabilitation medicine, rehabilitation nursing, rehabilitation counseling, rehabilitation social work, rehabilitation psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, prosthetics and orthotics, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other specialized fields contributing to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; and 87 Stat. 386 (3) disseminate information relating to vocational rehabilitation services, and otherwise promote the cause of the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals and their greater utilization in gainful and suitable employment. (b) The Secretary is authorized to make rules and regulations governing the administration of this title and titles I through III of this Act, and, except as otherwise provided in this Act, to delegate to any officer or employee of the United States such of Ins powers and duties under such titles, except the making of rules and regulations, as he finds necessary to carry out the provisions of such titles. Such rules and regulations shall be published in the Federal Register, on at least an interim basis, no later than ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act. (c) The Secretary is authorized (directly or by grants or contracts) to conduct studies, investigations, and evaluation of the programs authorized by this Act, and to make reports, with respect to abilities, aptitudes, and capacities of handicapped individuals, development of their potentialities, their utilization in gainful and suitable employment, and with respect to architectural, transportation, and other environmental and attitudinal barriers to their rehabilitation, including the problems of homebound, institutionalized, and older blind individuals. (d) There is authorized to be included for each fiscal year in the appropriation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare such sums as are necessary to administer the provisions of this Act. (e) In carrying out his duties under this Act, the Secretary shall insure the maximum coordination and consultation, at both national and local levels, with the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs and his designees with respect to programs for and relating to the rehabilitation of disabled veterans carried out under title 38, United States Code.