PUBLIC LAW 95-626~NOV. 10, 1978
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"COMPREHENSIVE
PUBLIC
HEALTH
92 STAT. 3571
SERVICES
"(d)(1) The Secretary shall make grants to State health authorities Grants, to assist in meeting the costs of providing comprehensive public health services. "(2) No grant may be made under paragraph (1) to the State Application, health authority of any State unless an application therefor has been submitted to and approved by the Secretary. Such an application shall be submitted in such form and manner and shall contain such information as the Secretary may require, and shall contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that— "(A) the comprehensive public health services which will be provided within the State with funds under a grant under paragraph (1) will be provided in accordance with the State health plan in effect under section 1524(c); 42 USC 300m-3. "(B) funds received under grants under paragraph (1) will— "(i) be used to supplement the level of non-Federal funds that would otherwise be made available for the comprehensive public health services for which the grant funds are provided, and "(ii) not be used to supplant such non-Federal funds, except that the Secretary may in exceptional circumstances waive ] clause (i) or (ii) or both clauses; "(C) the State health authority for which the application is submitted will— "(i) provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure the proper disbursement of and accounting for funds received under grants under paragraph (1); "(ii) from time to time, as prescribed by the Secretary, report to the Secretary (through a uniform national reporting system and by such categories as the Secretary may prescribe) a description of the comprehensive public health services provided in the State in the fiscal year for which the grant applied for is made and the amount and source of funds expended in that fiscal year and in the preceding fiscal year for the provision of each such category of services; and "(iii) make such other reports (in such form and containing such information as the Secretary may prescribe) as the Secretary may reasonably require and keep such records and afford such access thereto as the Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness of, and to verify, such reports; and "(D) the State health authority for which the application is submitted will have in effect a method satisfactory to the Secretary which will assure equitable distribution of funds under grants under paragraph (1) among State and local public health entities within the State which have made expenditures which may be used under paragraph (4) to compute the amount of such grants and which method provides that within the limit of the amount of funds received by the State health authority under such grants— "(i) each local public health entity which makes such expenditures shall receive from such funds in the fiscal year for which grants are made an amount which is equal to the lesser of— " (I) the product of the total amount of such expenditures in such fiscal year and the applicable grant computation percentage, or
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