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PUBLIC LAW 89-749-NOV. 3, 1966

[80 STAT.

For the purposes of carrying out this subsection, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968. "Grants for Comprehensive Public Health Services " (d)(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated $62,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, to enable the Surgeon General to make grants to State health or mental health authorities to assist the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public health services, including the training of personnel for State and local health work. The sums so appropriated shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Surgeon General, State plans for provision of public health services. Standards.

« ^ 2) S T A T E PLANS FOR PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES.—In

order to be approved under this subsection, a State plan for provision of public health services must— " (A) provide for administration or supervision of administration by the State health authority or, with respect to mental health services, the State mental health authority; " (B) set forth the policies and procedures to be followed in the expenditure of the funds paid under this subsection; " (C) contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory to the Surgeon General that (i) the funds paid to the State under this subsection will be used to make a significant contribution toward providing and strengthening public health services in the various political subdivisions in order to improve the health of the people; (ii) such funds will be made available to other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, and organizations, in accordance with criteria which the Surgeon General determines are designed to secure maximum participation of local, regional, or metropolitan agencies and groups in the provision of such services; and (iii) such funds will be used to supplement and, to the extent practical, to increase the level of funds that would otherwise be made available for the purposes for which the Federal funds are provided and not to supplant such non-Federal funds; " (D) provide for the furnishing of public health services under the State plan in accordance with such plans as have been developed pursuant to subsection (a); " (E) provide that public health services furnished under the plan will be in accordance with standards prescribed by regulations, including standards as to the scope and quality of such services; " (F) provide such methods of administration (including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Surgeon General shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Surgeon General to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan; " (G) provide that the State health authority or, with respect to mental health services, the State mental health authority, will from time to time, but not less often than annually, review and evaluate its State plan approved under this subsection and submit to the Surgeon General appropriate modifications thereof;

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