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2. 45 C.F.R. ss 1355.25, 1355.37, 1356.21(b)(2), 1356.71 (2005 ).
3. Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 , Pub. L. No. 105-89, 111 Stat. 2115 (1997 ).
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5. Perceptions and practice: Agency efforts for the hardest-to-place children