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ATTACHMENT A-OAA STATE PLAN ASSURANCES AND REQUIRED ACTIVITIES
(26) The plan shall provide assurances that funds received under this title will not be used to pay any
part of a cost (including an administrative cost) incurred by the State agency or an area agency on aging
to carry out a contract or commercial relationship that is not carried out to implement this title.
(27) The plan shall provide assurances that area agencies on aging will provide, to the extent feasible,
for the furnishing of services under this Act, consistent with self-directed care.
Sec. 308, PLANNING, COORDINATION, EVALUATION, AND ADMINISTRATION OF STATE
PLANS
(b)(3)(E) No application by a State under subparagraph (A) shall be approved unless it contains assur-
ances that no amounts received by the State under this paragraph will be used to hire any individual to
fill a job opening created by the action of the State in laying off or terminating the employment of any
regular employee not supported under this Act in anticipation of filling the vacancy so created by hiring
an employee to be supported through use of amounts received under this paragraph.
Sec. 705, ADDITIONAL STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS (as numbered in statute)
(a) ELIGIBILITY.-In order to be eligible to receive an allotment under this subtitle, a State shall include in
the state plan submitted under section 307-
(1) an assurance that the State, in carrying out any chapter of this subtitle for which the State receives
funding under this subtitle, will establish programs in accordance with the requirements of the chapter
and this chapter;
(2) an assurance that the State will hold public hearings, and use other means, to obtain the views of
older individuals, area agencies on aging, recipients of grants under title VI, and other interested per-
sons and entities regarding programs carried out under this subtitle;
(3) an assurance that the State, in consultation with area agencies on aging, will identify and prioritize
statewide activities aimed at ensuring that older individuals have access to, and assistance in securing
and maintaining, benefits and rights;
(4) an assurance that the State will use funds made available under this subtitle for a chapter in addi-
tion to, and will not supplant, any funds that are expended under any Federal or State law in existence
on the day before the date of the enactment of this subtitle, to carry out each of the vulnerable elder
rights protection activities described in the chapter;
(5) an assurance that the State will place no restrictions, other than the requirements referred to in
clauses (i) through (iv) of section 712(a)(5)(C), on the eligibility of entities for designation as local Om-
budsman entities under section 712(a)(5).
(6) an assurance that, with respect to programs for the prevention of elder abuse, neglect, and ex-
ploitation under chapter 3-
(A) in carrying out such programs the State agency will conduct a program of services con-
sistent with relevant State law and coordinated with existing State adult protective ser-
vice activities for --
(i) public education to identify and prevent elder abuse;
(ii) receipt of reports of elder abuse;
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