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Special Assistance for Training Handicapped Employees
Training Courses. B-18O710. September 23, 1977. 3 pp.
Decision by Robert F. Keller, Deputy
concerning
Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Education, Training, and Employment Proqrams:
Programs for Specific Target Groups (1108).
Contact: Office of the General Counsel: General Government
Matters.
Budget Function: Education, Manpower, and Social Services:
Training and Employment (504).
Organization concerned: Civil Service Commission.
Authority: Government Employees' Training Act (5 U.S.C. 4101-18;
5 U.S.C. 7153). Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29
U.S.C. 791 (Supp. V)). 5 U.S.C. 3162. 5 U.S.C. 4109. 31
U.S.C. 628. 53 Comp. Gen. 351. 53 Comp. Gen. 354. 3 Coup.
Gen. 433. 23 Coup. Gen. 831. 45 Ccmp. Gen. 215.
The Acting chairman of the civil Service Commission
requested concurrence of the view that special expenses of
making training courses available to the handicapped,
particularly the communications-impaired employees, are
reasonable in vie!. of the Government's re.sponsibilities urider
the pertinent legislation. A specific gueetion was whether
fundE generally available for employee training are available to
pay for such special expenses as interpreters for the deaf and
readers for the blind. Special expenses necessary to enable
handicapped employees to participate in Government training
courses may be paid with appropriated funds. (Author/SW)
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