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ATTACHMENT A-OAA STATE PLAN ASSURANCES AND REQUIRED ACTIVITIES
(ii) no officer, employee, or other representative of the State agency or an area agency
on aging is subject to a conflict of interest prohibited under this Act; and
(iii) mechanisms are in place to identify and remove conflicts of interest prohibited un-
der this Act.
(9) The plan shall provide assurances that the State agency will carry out, through the Office of the
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, a State Long-Term Care Ombudsman program in accordance
with section 712 and this title, and will expend for such purpose an amount that is not less than an
amount expended by the State agency with funds received under this title for fiscal year 2000, and an
amount that is not less than the amount expended by the State agency with funds received under title
VII for fiscal year 2000.
(10) The plan shall provide assurance that the special needs of older individuals residing in rural areas
will be taken into consideration and shall describe how those needs have been met and describe how
funds have been allocated to meet those needs.
(11) The plan shall provide that with respect to legal assistance --
(A) the plan contains assurances that area agencies on aging will
(i) enter into contracts with providers of legal assistance which can demonstrate the expe-
rience or capacity to deliver legal assistance;
(ii) include in any such contract provisions to assure that any recipient of funds under divi-
sion (i) will be subject to specific restrictions and regulations promulgated under the Legal
Services Corporation Act (other than restrictions and regulations governing eligibility for
legal assistance under such Act and governing membership of local governing boards) as
determined appropriate by the Assistant Secretary; and
(iii) attempt to involve the private bar in legal assistance activities authorized under this
title, including groups within the private bar furnishing services to older individuals on a
pro bono and reduced fee basis.
(B) the plan contains assurances that no legal assistance will be furnished unless the grantee
administers a program designed to provide legal assistance to older individuals with social or
economic need and has agreed, if the grantee is not a Legal Services Corporation project grant-
ee, to coordinate its services with existing Legal Services Corporation projects in the planning
and service area in order to concentrate the use of funds provided under this title on individuals
with the greatest such need; and the area agency on aging makes a finding, after assessment,
pursuant to standards for service promulgated by the Assistant Secretary, that any grantee se-
lected is the entity best able to provide the particular services.
(D) the plan contains assurances, to the extent practicable, that legal assistance furnished under
the plan will be in addition to any legal assistance for older individuals being furnished with funds
from sources other than this Act and that reasonable efforts will be made to maintain existing lev-
els of legal assistance for older individuals; and
(E) the plan contains assurances that area agencies on aging will give priority to legal assis-
tance related to income, health care, long-term care, nutrition, housing, utilities, protective
services, defense of guardianship, abuse, neglect, and age discrimination.
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