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President Signed H.R. 4005, the Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1975 [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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President Signed H.R. 4005, the Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1975 [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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Digitized from Box 16 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
OCTOBER 6, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The President has signed H.R. 4005 -- Developmental Disabilities
Amendments of 1975 -- which will extend through fiscal year 1978 the
appropriation authorizations under the Develpmental Services and
Facilities Construction Act; revise the Act in various respects, including
provision of new authority for special project grants, authorization of
support for renovation and modernization of university-affiliated
facilities and establishment of satellite centers, and provisions to
establish and protect the rights of the developmentally disabled.
The Developmental Disabilities (DD) program began as a program for
the severely mentally retarded with the passage in 1963 of the Mental
Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction
Act of 1963. That Act authorized grants for (1) construction and initial
staffing of community mental retardation facilities based on a State
plan and (2) construction of university-affiliated facilities (UAF's) for
training personnel and developing service programs for the develop-
mentally disabled.
The bill will include:
-- authorize appropriations through fiscal year 1977 at the
1976 budget level,
-- add "autism" to the definition of DD,
-- provide a special project grant authority to supercede
the present authority in the Public Health Service Act
and the Rehabilitation Act for DD projects, with a 30%
set-aside for projects of national significance,
-- reduce the Federal matching share of State and UAF
grants from 70% in fiscal year 1975 to 50% in fiscal
year 1977,
-- eliminate construction grants to UAF's, and
-- provide for a comprehensive evaluation of DD services.
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