payments to states

payments to states Sec. 121. (a) From each State’s allotment tinder this part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay to such State or, at the option of the State agency designated pursuant to section 101(a) (1), to a public or nonprofit organization or agency, a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan approved pursuant to section 101 to expand vocational rehabilitation services, including programs to initiate or expand such services to individuals with the most severe handicaps, or of special programs under such State plan to initiate or expand services to classes of handicapped individuals who have unusual and difficult problems in connection with their rehabilitation, particularly handicapped individuals who are poor, mid responsibility for whose treatment, education, and rehabilitation is shared by the State agency designated in section 101 with other agencies. The Secretary may require, that any portion of a State’s allotment under this section, but not more than 50 per centum of such allotment, may be expended in connection with only such projects as have, first been approved by the Secretary. Any grant of funds under this section which will be used for direct services to handicapped individuals or for establishing or maintaining facilities which will render direct services to such individuals must have the prior approval of the appropriate State agency designated pursuant to section 101. (c) Payments under this section with respect to any project may be made for a period of not to exceed three years beginning with the commencement of the project as approved, and sums appropriated for grants under this section shall remain available for such grants through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. Payments with respect to any project may not exceed 90 per centum of the cost, of such project. The non-Federal share of the cost of a project may be in cash or in kind and may include funds spent for project purposes by a cooperating public or nonprofit agency provided that it is not included as a cost in any other federally financed program. (d) Payments under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement for services performed and purchases made, as may be determined by the Secretary, and shall be made on such conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.