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personnel Sec. 208. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is directed to assign to the Office for the Blind and Visually Handicapped of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ten additional full-time personnel (or their equivalent), five of whom shall be supportive personnel, to carry out duties related to the administration of the Randolph-Sheppard Act. (b) Section 5108(c) of title 5, linked States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (10): (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (11) and inserting in lieu thereof “; and”; and (3) by adding after paragraph (11) the following new paragraph: “(12) the Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, subject to the standards and procedures prescribed by this chapter, may place one additional position in the Office for the Blind and Visually Handicapped of the Rehabilitation Services Administration in GS–16, GS–17, or GS–18.”. (c) In selecting personnel to fill any position under this section, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall give, preference to blind individuals. (d) Section 4(b) of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, as redesignated by section 206 of this title, is amended by striking out “, and at least 50 per centum of such additional personnel shall be blind persons”.