appropriations to carry out this section or in combination with funds available under other Federal or Federal grant-in-aid programs or from any other source. Notwithstanding any provision of law limiting the Federal share in any such other program, funds appropriated to carry out this section may be used to increase such Federal share, as the Commission determines appropriate.

(As amended Pub. L. 92-65, title II, § 211, Aug. 5, 1971, 85 Stat. 172.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Subsec. (a) (2). Pub. L. 92-65 extended the authority of the President to make grants for evaluations, assessment of needs, potentials, or attainments of the people of the region, and for construction of facilities, and further provided that grants may be made from appropriations under this Appendix or otherwise, and that funds appropriated to carry out this section may be used to increase the Federal share at the discretion of the Commission.

TITLE IV.-APPROPRIATIONS AND

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

§ 401. Authorization of appropriations.

In addition to the appropriations authorized in section 105 for administrative expenses, in section 201 for the Appalachian Development Highway System

and Local Access Roads, and in section 208 for Appalachian Airport Safety Improvements, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the President, to be available until expended, to carry out this Act, $268,500,000 for the two-fiscal-year period ending June 30, 1971; $282,000,000 for the two-fiscalyear period ending June 30, 1973; and $294,000,000 for the two-fiscal-year period ending June 30, 1975. (As amended Pub. L. 92-65, title II, § 212, Aug. 5, 1971, 85 Stat. 172.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-65 added reference to section 208, authorized appropriation of $282,000,000 for the two-fiscalyear period ending June 30, 1973, and $294,000,000 for the two-fiscal-year period ending June 30, 1975, and struck out provisions limiting to certain amounts the funds allotted to be used in carrying out specified sections.

§ 403. Definition of Appalachian region.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 23 section 143; title 33 section 1257.

§ 405. Termination.

This Act, other than section 201, shall cease to be in effect on July 1, 1975. (As amended Pub. L. 92-65, title II, § 213, Aug. 5, 1971, 85 Stat. 173.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-65 substituted "July 1, 1975" for "July 1, 1971".

48c. Authorization of appropriations [New].

§ 5. Advertisements for proposals for purchases and contracts for supplies or services for Government departments; application to Government sales and contracts to sell and to Government Corporations. REFERENCES IN TEXT

The General Schedule, referred to in subsec. (e) (1), is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

CODIFICATION

Section is also set out in the District of Columbia Code § 1-808.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in title 2 section 475; title 20 section 1070d-1; title 22 sections 272a, 287e, 295b, 2509; title 33 section 1254; title 38 sections 806, 5012, 5073; title 42 sections 286d, 287b, 2951-2, 295f-4, 295f-6, 296d, 298c-7, 300d-5, 300e-2, 300e-3, 4101; title 45 sections 712, 715.

§ 46. Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped. (a) Establishment.

There is established a committee to be known as the Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped (hereafter in sections 46 to 48c of this title referred to as the "Committee"). The Committee shall be composed of fourteen members appointed as follows:

(1) The President shall appoint as a member one officer or employee from each of the following: The Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Commerce, the Veterans' Administration, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the General Services Administration. The head of each such department and agency shall nominate one officer or employee in his department or agency for appointment under this paragraph.

(2) (A) The President shall appoint one member from persons who are not officers or employees of the Government and who are conversant with the problems incident to the employment of the blind and other severely handicapped individuals.

(B) The President shall appoint one member from persons who are not officers or employees of the Government and who represent blind individuals employed in qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind.

(C) The President shall appoint one member from persons who are not officers or employees of the Government and who represent severely handicapped individuals (other than blind individuals) employed in qualified nonprofit agencies for other severely handicapped individuals.

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(b) Vacancy.

A vacancy in the membership of the Committee shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made.

(c) Chairman.

The members of the Committee shall elect one of their number to be Chairman.

(d) Terms.

(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), members appointed under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this section shall be appointed for terms of five years. Any member appointed to the Committee under such paragraph may be reappointed to the Committee if he meets the qualifications prescribed by that paragraph.

(2) Of the members first appointed under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this section

(A) one shall be appointed for a term of three years,

(B) one shall be appointed for a term of four years, and

(C) one shall be appointed for a term of five years, as designated by the President at the time of appointment.

(3) Any member appointed under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this section to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of such term. A member appointed under such paragraph may serve after the expiration of his term until his successor has taken office.

(e) Pay and travel expenses.

(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), members of the Committee shall each be entitled to receive the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day (including traveltime) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of services for the Committee.

(2) Members of the Committee who are officers or employees of the Government shall receive no additional pay on account of their service on the Committee.

(3) While away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the Committee, members of the Committee shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703 (b) of Title 5.

(f) Staff.

(1) Subject to such rules as may be adopted by the Committee, the Chairman may appoint and fix the pay of such personnel as the Committee determines are necessary to assist it in carrying out its

duties and powers under sections 46 to 48c of this title.

(2) Upon request of the Committee, the head of any entity of the Government is authorized to detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of such entity to the Committee to assist it in carrying out its duties and powers under section 46 to 48c of this title.

(3) The staff of the Committee appointed under paragraph (1) shall be appointed subject to the provisions of Title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such Title 5 relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates.

(g) Obtaining official data.

The Committee may secure directly from any entity of the Government information necessary to enable it to carry out sections 46 to 48c of this title. Upon request of the Chairman of the Committee, the head of such Government entity shall furnish such information to the Committee.

(h) Administrative support services.

The Administrator of General Services shall provide to the Committee on a reimbursable basis such administrative support services as the Committee may request.

(i) Annual report.

The Committee shall, not later than September 30 of each year, transmit to the President and to the Congress a report which shall include the names of the Committee members serving in the preceding fiscal year, the dates of Committee meetings in that year, a description of its activities under sections 46 to 48c of this title in that year, and any recommendations for changes in which it determines are necessary. (As amended June 23, 1971, Pub. L. 9228, § 1, 85 Stat. 77.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

The General Schedule, referred to in subsec. (e) (1), is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-28, in substituting subsecs. (a)-(1) for former paragraph, among other changes: renamed Committee on Purchases of Blind-made Products as Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; increased membership of Committee from seven to fourteen members; provided for appointments from Departments of Defense, Air Force, Health, Education, and Welfare, Justice, and Labor and from Veterans' Administration and General Services Administration; eliminated appointments from Treasury Department and Department of Interior; substituted appointment from Department of the Army for appointment from War Department; required one appointee to be also conversant with problems incident to employment of other severely handicapped individuals; substituted requirement that such appointment be from persons not officers or employees of the Government rather than that he be a private citizen; reenacted provision for Presidential appointment; substituted subsec. (e) pay and travel expenses provisions for former requirement for service of Committee members without additional compensation; incorporated in subsec. (c) provision for selection of a Chairman, substituting "election" for "designation"; and added provisions incorporated in subsecs. (a)(1) (for nomination by head of each department and agency of one officer or employee of the department or agency for appointment under par. (1)), (a) (2) (B), (C), (b), (d), and (f)-(1).

EFFECTIVE Date of 1971 AMENDMENT Section 2 of Pub. L. 92-28 provided that: "The amendment made by the first section of this Act [amending sections 46-48 and enacting sections 48a-48c of this title] shall take effect on the first day of the first month which begins more than thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act [June 23, 1971]."

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 48a, 48b, 48c of this title.

§ 47. Duties and powers of the Committee.

(a) Procurement list: publication in Federal Register; additions and removals.

(1) The Committee shall establish and publish in the Federal Register a list (hereafter in sections 46 to 48c of this title referred to as the "procurement list") of

(A) the commodities produced by any qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or by any qualified nonprofit agency for other severely handicapped, and

(B) the services provided by any such agency, which the Committee determines are suitable for procurement by the Government pursuant to sections 46 to 48c of this title. Such list shall be established and published in the Federal Register before the expiration of the thirty-day period beginning on the effective date of this paragraph and shall initially consist of the commodities contained, on such date, in the schedule of blind-made products issued by the former Committee on Purchases of BlindMade Products under its regulations.

(2) The Committee may, by rule made in accordance with the requirements of subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 553 of Title 5, add to and remove from the procurement list commodities so produced and services so provided.

(b) Fair market price; price revisions.

The Committee shall determine the fair market price of commodities and services which are contained on the procurement list and which are offered for sale to the Government by any qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or any such agency for other severely handicapped. The Committee shall also revise from time to time in accordance with changing market conditions its price determinations with respect to such commodities and services.

(c) Central nonprofit agency; designation.

The Committee shall designate a central nonprofit agency or agencies to facilitate the distribution (by direct allocation, subcontract, or any other means) of orders of the Government for commodities and services on the procurement list among qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or such agencies for other severely handicapped.

(d) Rules and regulations; blind-made products, priority.

(1) The Committee may make rules and regulations regarding (A) specifications for commodities and services on the procurement list, (B) the time of their delivery, and (C) such other matters as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 46 to 48c of this title.

(2) The Committee shall prescribe regulations providing that

(A) in the purchase by the Government of commodities produced and offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or such agencies for other severely handicapped, priority shall be accorded to commodities produced and offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind, and

(B) in the purchase by the Government of services offered by nonprofit agencies for the blind or such agencies for other severely handicapped, priority shall, until the end of the calendar year ending December 31, 1976, be accorded to services offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind.

(e) Problems and production methods; study and evaluation.

The Committee shall make a continuing study and evaluation of its activities under sections 46 to 48c of this title for the purpose of assuring effective and efficient administration of sections 46 to 48c of this title. The Committee may study (on its own or in cooperation with other public or nonprofit private agencies) (1) problems related to the employment of the blind and of other severely handicapped individuals, and (2) the development and adaptation of production methods which would enable a greater utilization of the blind and other severely handicapped individuals. (As amended June 23, 1971, Pub. L. 92-28, § 1, 85 Stat. 79.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-28, in substituting subsecs. (a)-(e) for former paragraph, among other changes: extended the provisions to cover commodities and services of agencies for the blind and other severely handicapped, previously limited to brooms and mops and other suitable commodities manufactured by agencies for the blind; added provisions incorporated in subsecs. (a) and (e); incorporated in subsec. (b) provisions for determination of fair market price and price revisions; incorporated in subsec. (c) provisions for designation of a central nonprofit agency, providing for distribution by direct allocation, subcontract, or any other means; incorporated existing provisions in subsec. (d) (1), adding par. (2) thereof; and deleted provision that no change in prices shall become effective prior to expiration of fifteen days from date on which such change is made by the Committee.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1971 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 92-28 effective Aug. 1, 1971, see section 2 of Pub. L. 92-28, set out as a note under section 46 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 46, 48a, 48b, 48c of this title.

§ 48. Procurement requirements for the Government; nonapplication to prison-made products.

If any entity of the Government intends to procure any commodity or service on the procurement list, that entity shall, in accordance with rules and regulations of the Committee, procure such commodity or service, at the price established by the Committee, from a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or such an agency for other severely handicapped if the commodity or service is available within the period required by that Government entity; except that this section shall not apply with respect to the procurement of any commodity which is available for procurement from an industry established under chapter 307 of Title 18, and which, under section 4124

of such Title 18, is required to be procured from such industry. (As amended June 23, 1971, Pub. L. 92–28, § 1, 85 Stat. 80.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-28 extended provisions to cover any commodity or service on the procurement list for former provision for brooms and mops and other suitable commodities, excepted the section from application to prisonmade products, and deleted provision for nonapplicability of former sections 46-58 of this title to cases where brooms and mops were available for procurement from and Federal department or agency and procurement therefrom was required under provisions of any law in effect on June 25, 1938, or to cases where brooms and mops were procured outside continental United States.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1971 AMENDMENT

Amendment by Pub. L. 92-28 effective Aug. 1, 1971, see section 2 of Pub. L. 92-28, set out as a note under section 46 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 46, 48a, 48b, 48c of this title.

§ 48a. Audit.

The Comptroller General of the United States, or any of his duly authorized representatives, shall have access, for the purpose of audit and examination, to any books, documents, papers, and other records of the Committee and of each agency designated by the Committee under section 47(c) of this title. This section shall also apply to any qualified nonprofit agency for the blind and any such agency for other severely handicapped which have sold commodities or services under sections 46 to 48c of this title but only with respect to the books, documents, papers, and other records of such agency which relate to its activities in a fiscal year in which a sale was made under sections 46 to 48c of this title. (June 25, 1938, ch. 697, § 4, as added June 23, 1971, Pub. L. 92–28, § 1, 85 Stat. 81.)

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section effective Aug. 1, 1971, see section 2 of Pub. L. 9228, set out as a note under section 46 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 46, 48b, 48c of this title

§ 48b. Definitions.

For purposes of sections 46 to 48c of this title(1) The term "blind" refers to an individual or class of individuals whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees.

(2) The terms "other severely handicapped" and "severely handicapped individuals” mean an individual or class of individuals under a physical or mental disability, other than blindness, which (according to criteria established by the Committee after consultation with appropriate entities of the Government and taking into account the views of non-Government entities representing the handicapped) constitutes a substantial handicap to employment and is of such a nature as to prevent the individual under such disability from currently engaging in normal competitive employment.