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PUBLIC LAW 89-749-NOV. 3, 1966

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during the period of assignment and in the case of travel to and from their places of assignment or appointment, for the payment of expenses of travel of persons assigned to, or given appointments by, the Service under an arrangement under this subsection. "(9) All arrangements under this subsection for assignment of officers or employees in the Department to States or for assignment of officers or employees of States to the Department shall be made in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, "General " (g)(1) All regulations and amendments thereto with respect to grants to States under subsection (a) shall be made after consultation with a conference of the State health planning agencies designated or established pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a). All regulations and amendments thereto with respect to grants to States under subsection (d) shall be made after consultation with a conference of State health authorities and, in the case of regulations and amendments which relate to or in any way affect grants for services or other activities in the field of mental health, the State mental health authorities. Insofar as practicable, the Surgeon General shall obtain the agreement, prior to the issuance of such regulations or amendments, of the State authorities or agencies with whom such consultation is required. "(2) The Surgeon General, at the request of any recipient of a ^.Payment reducgrant under this section, may reduce the payments to such recipient by the fair market value of any equipment or supplies furnished to such recipient and by the amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee to the recipient when such furnishing or such detail, as the case may be, is for the convenience of and at the request of such recipient and for the purpose of carrying out the State plan or the project with respect to which the grant under this section is made. The amount by which such payments are so reduced shall be available for payment of such costs (including the costs of such equipment and supplies) by the Surgeon General, but shall, for purposes of determining the Federal share under subsection (a) or (d), be deemed to have been paid to the State. "(3) Whenever the Surgeon General, after reasonable notice and ce^sairorTof'^a"' opportunity for hearing to the health authority or, where appropri- ments, ate, the mental health authority of a State or a State health planning agency designated or established pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a), finds that, with respect to money paid to the State out of appropriations under subsection (a) or (d), there is a failure to comply substantially with either— " (A) the applicable provisions of this section; " (B) the State plan submitted under such subsection; or " (C) applicable regulations under this section; the Surgeon General shall notify such State health authority, mental health authority, or health planning agency, as the case may be, that further payments will not be made to the State from appropriations under such subsection (or in his discretion that further payments will not be made to the State from such appropriations for activities in which there is such failure), until he is satisfied that there will no longer be such failure. Until he is so satisfied, the Surgeon General shall make no payment to such State from appropriations under such subsection, or shall limit payment to activities in which there is no such failure. "(4) For the purposes of this section— " (A) The term 'nonprofit' as applied to any private agency, "Norprofit." institution, or organization means one which is a corporation or

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