DATE: April 30, 2007

TO: Grantees under Section 4 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as
amended

FROM: Edward Anthony, Ph.D.

> Delegated the authority to perform the functions of Commissioner of
> the Rehabilitation Services Administration

SUBJECT: State Plans for Assistive Technology for October 1, 2007
through September 30, 2008.

Dear Grantee:

As of September 30, 2005, RSA approved your State Plan for Assistive
Technology (State Plan) describing your state's implementation of
Section 4 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended (AT Act,
as amended) from October 1, 2005, through September 30, 2008. RSA
approved updates and amendments to this plan by the end of its first
year, September 30, 2006.

September 30, 2007, will end the second year of your State Plan. In
preparation for the third year of this State Plan (October 1, 2007,
through September 30, 2008), you must submit the following to RSA:

1)  Section 4(c)(2) of the AT Act, as amended requires states to
    establish advisory councils to provide consumer-responsive,
    consumer-driven advice for planning of, implementation of, and
    evaluation of the activities carried out through the grant. Your
    advisory council is described in Attachment 3 of your State Plan.
    You must provide an assurance that you have an advisory council that
    complies with Section 4(c)(2) or are making an active effort to
    maintain such an advisory council per guidance you received in a
    Dear Colleague Letter dated October 2, 2006.

2)  Section 4(d)(3) of the AT Act, as amended requires states to provide
    information on measurable goals, and a timeline for meeting those
    goals, the state has set for addressing the AT needs of individuals
    with disabilities in the domains of education, employment, community
    living, and telecommunications and information technology (IT). The
    measurable goals as prescribed by RSA are found in Attachment 4 of
    your State Plan. As of February 1, 2007, you began collecting data
    related to these measurable goals using the data collection
    instrument provided by RSA. You must provide an assurance that,
    using data from the aforementioned instrument, you will submit the
    following to RSA no later than January 30, 2008:

    a.  Baseline data for the measurable goals set forth in Attachment 4
        of your State Plan; and

    b.  Goals for improvement over this baseline for the third year of
        your State Plan (October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008).

More information about completing (a) and (b) will be provided by RSA
before the January 30, 2008, deadline.

3)  Attachments 5 and 8 of your State Plan describe how you will
    implement state-level and state leadership activities in accordance
    with Sections 4(e)(2) and (3) of the AT Act, as amended. As
    appropriate, you must either:

    a.  Provide an assurance that you will implement your state-level
        and state leadership activities during the third year of your
        State Plan in accordance with Attachments 5 and 8 of your State
        Plan as submitted; or

    b.  If you have made significant changes in implementation of these
        activities, you must briefly describe and justify these changes.

4)  Attachment 10 of your State Plan describes how you will allocate
    your funds in accordance with the requirements of the AT Act, as
    amended. Specifically, the AT Act, as amended requires that no more
    than 40 percent of your grant funds be used for state leadership
    activities (no more than 30 percent if you exercise state
    flexibility in accordance with Section 4(e)(6) of the AT Act, as
    amended), that 5 percent of the funds used for state leadership
    activities will be used for training and technical assistance
    related to transition, and that no more than 10 percent of your
    grant will be used for indirect costs. You must provide an assurance
    that your budget allocations for the third year of your State Plan
    will comply with these requirements.

5)  If you have changed how you implement the AT Act, as amended, in a
    way that affects any part of your State Plan not previously
    mentioned, provide a brief description of this change and a
    justification for it.

This information must be provided to RSA in the form of a letter, signed
by your certifying representative, no later than August 1, 2007. This
letter should be sent to:

> Edward Anthony, Ph.D.
>
> C/O Jeremy Buzzell
>
> U.S. Department of Education
>
> 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.
>
> PCP Room 5025
>
> Washington, DC 20202-2800

If you have questions, contact Jeremy Buzzell at <Jeremy.Buzzell@ed.gov>
or (202) 245‑7319.

> Thank you,
>
> Edward Anthony, Ph.D.

Delegated the authority to perform the functions of Commissioner of the
Rehabilitation Services Administration