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 102 STAT. 4834

Termination date. Reports.

PUBLIC LAW 100-713—NOV. 23, 1988

"(b) During the period in which a demonstration project established under subsection (a) is being conducted by an Indian tribe, the Secretary shall award all health care contracts, including community, behavioral, and preventive health care contracts, to the Indian tribe in the form of a single grant to which the regulations prescribed under part A of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (as modified as necessary by any agreement entered into between the Secretary and the Indian tribe to achieve the purposes of the demonstration project established under subsection (a)) shall apply. "(c) The Secretary may waive such provisions of Federal procurement law as are necessary to enable any Indian tribe to develop and test administrative systems under the demonstration project established under subsection (a), but only if such waiver does not diminish or endanger the delivery of health care services to Indians. "(d)(1) The demonstration project established under subsection (a) shall terminate on September 30, 1993. "(2) By no later than September 30, 1994, the Secretary shall evaluate the performance of each Indian tribe that has participated in a demonstration project established under subsection (a) and shall submit to the Congress a report on such evaluations and demonstration projects. "(e) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.". HEALTH CARE FOR RURAL AREAS

SEC. 714. Title VII of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "PART I—HEALTH CARE FOR RURAL AREAS HEALTH CARE FOR RURAL AREAS

Grants. Contracts. 42 USC 295j.

"SEC. 799A. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, any eligible applicant to help such applicant fund authorized activities under an application and approved under subsection (d). (b)(l) Amounts provided under subsection (a) shall be used by the recipients to fund interdisciplinary projects designed to use new and innovative methods and models to— "(A) train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas; "(B) provide access to cost-effective, comprehensive health care to individuals residing in rural areas; "(C) enhance the amount of research conducted concerning health care delivery in rural areas; and "(D) increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners in rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners. "(2) A recipient of funds under subsection (a) may use various methods in carrying out the projects described in paragraph (1), including— "(A) the distribution of stipends to students of eligible applicants; (B) the establishment of a post-graduate fellowship program; "(C) the training of faculty in the economic and logistical problems confronting rural health care delivery systems; or

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