problems; to make traditional approaches more cost effective; and to show how to deliver a specialized service in a generic setting or facility not located in a university setting.

(d) Dissemination of information. The university affiliated facility shall disseminate to practitioners and administrators findings relating to the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities. It shall also provide researchers with information on the needs for further service-related research. "Dissemination of findings" means the production of publications and training materials, and the holding of seminars and the like, for practitioners and administrators concerned with providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

(1) The university affiliated facility shall make material available to practitioners, administrators, and researchers. It shall contain any necessary precautionary statements along with any claims that are made.

(2) The university affiliated facility shall develop a plan for the dissemination of information to assure that the material is relevant to practitioners, administrators, and researchers who plan, devise, or deliver services to persons with developmental disabilities.

§ 1388.14 Minimum grants.

(a) The amount of any grant under this subpart may not be less than $150,000 for any fiscal year.

(b) To the extent possible within the appropriation for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1979, 1980, and 1981, grants which exceeded $150,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978 may not be reduced.

Subpart C-Supplemental Grants

§ 1388.20 Purposes of grants.

Grants may be awarded for one or more of the following activities:

(a) To assess the need for trained personnel to provide assistance to persons with developmental disabilities;

(b) To provide service-related training to practitioners providing services to persons with developmental disabilities;

(c) To conduct an applied research program designed to produce more ef

ficient and effective methods (1) to deliver services to persons with developmental disabilities, and (2) to train professionals, para-professionals, and parents who provide these services;

(d) To conduct a feasibility study of the ways in which a university affiliated facility, singly or jointly with other university affiliated facilities funded under Subpart B, can establish and operate one or more satellite centers located in areas not served by a university affiliated facility. The study must be carried out in consultation with the State planning council for the State in which the facility is located and where the satellite center will be established. The amount of any grant for this purpose may not be more than $25,000.

§ 1388.6 must be met. The application must contain the name of the university affiliated facility which carried out the study of the feasibility of establishing the satellite center, and a description of the geographical areas to be served by the center. It must also contain a description of the services to be provided and the resources available to support them.

§ 1388.32 Minimum grants.

Any grants made to a satellite center which received a grant for its administration and operation in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978 may not be less than $75,000.

§ 1400.1 Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

"Act" means the General Education Provisions Act, as amended.

"Applicant" means an eligible party seeking Federal financial assistance under this chapter.

"Application" includes requests from eligible parties for grant assistance from the Federal Government.

"Award" means a properly executed grant to an eligible party under this chapter.

"Budget period” means the interval of time into which an approved activity is divided for budgetary purposes.

"Council" means the National Council on Educational Research.

"Department" means the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

"Director" means the Director of the National Institute of Education or a designee of the Director.

"Educational research" means research (basic and applied), planning, surveys, evaluations, investigations, experiments, developments, and demonstrations in the field of education (including career education).

"Expendable personal property" means all tangible personal property other than nonexpendable personal property.

"Fiscal year" means a period beginning on July 1 and ending on the following June 30. (A fiscal year is desig

nated in accordance with the calendar year in which the ending date of the fiscal year occurs.)

"Grant period" means the period during which costs may be charged against a grant.

"Grantee" means the individual, agency, organization, or institution which has received an award of grant assistance from the Institute.

"Institute" means the National Institute of Education.

"Local government" means a local unit of government including specifically a county, municipality, city, township, school district, local public authority, special district, intrastate district, council of governments, sponsor, group representative organization, and other regional or interstate government entity, or any agency or instrumentality of a local government exclusive of institutions of higher education and hospitals.

"Minor remodeling" means minor alterations in a previously completed building which are needed to make effective use of equipment or personnel. The term may also include the extension of utility lines, such as water and electricity, from points beyond the confines of the spaces in which the minor remodeling is undertaken but within the confines of such previously completed building. The term does not include building construction, structural alterations to buildings, building maintenance, or repair.

"Nonexpendable personal property" means tangible personal property, including equipment, having a useful life of more than 1 year and an acquisition cost of $300 or more per unit. A grantee may use its own definition of nonexpendable personal property provided that such definition would at least include all tangible personal property as defined herein.

"Personal property" means property of any kind except real property. It may be tangible-having physical existence, or intangible-having no phys