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 100 STAT. 908

PUBLIC LAW 99-401—AUG. 27, 1986

public agencies and organizations to provide crisis nurseries for children who are abused and neglected, are at high risk of abuse and neglect, or who are in families receiving child protective services. Such service shall be provided without fee for a maximum of 30 days in any year. Crisis nurseries shall also provide referral to support services. Grants. 42 USC 5117c.

SEC. 205. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. (a)ApPUCATIONS.-

(1) Any State which desires to receive a grant under section 203 or 204 shall submit an application to the Secretary in such form and at such times as the Secretary may require. Such application shall— (A) describe the proposed State program, including the services to be provided, the agencies and organizations that will provide the services, and the criteria for selection of children and families for participation in projects under the program; (B) contain an estimate of the cost of developing, implementing, and evaluating the State program; (C) set forth the plan for dissemination of the results of the projects; and (D) specify the State agency designated to administer programs and activities assisted under this title and the plans for coordinating interagency support of the program. (2) Such application shall contain assurances that— (A) not more than 5 percent of funds made available under this title will be used for State administrative costs; (B) projects will be of sufficient size, scope, and quality to achieve the objectives of the program; (C) in the distribution of funds made available under section 203, a State will give priority consideration to agencies and organizations with experience in working with handicapped and chronically ill children and their families and which serve communities with the greatest need for such services; (D) in the distribution of funds made available under section 204, the State will give priority consideration to agencies and organizations with experience in working with abused or neglected children and their families, and with children at high risk of abuse and neglect and their families, and which serve communities which demonstrate the greatest need for such services; and (E) Federal funds made available under this title will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the amount of State and local funds that would in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for the uses specified in this title, and in no case supplant such State or local funds. 0)) AWARD OF GRANTS.—

(1) In reviewing applications for grants under this title, the Secretary shall consider, among other factors, the equitable geographical distribution of grants. (2) In the award of temporary non-medical child care demonstration grants under section 203, the Secretary shall give a preference to States in which such care is unavailable.

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