The following excerpt is from Board of Ed. of City School Dist. of City of New York v. Harris, 622 F.2d 599 (2nd Cir. 1980):
This delegation of authority is hardly of the same order as that found in Batterton v. Francis, supra (definition of "unemployed" in 42 U.S.C. 607(a) to be determined "in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary"). The grant here is simply a procedural assurance that decisions will be made on the basis of standards publicly elaborated by the Secretary: it does not expressly indicate that those standards themselves shall have the force and effect of law.
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