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PUBLIC LAW 91-616-DEC. 31, 1970

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facilities needed to provide services for alcohol abuse and alcoholism and a plan for the development and distribution of such facilities and programs throughout the State; (5) provide such methods of administration of the State plan, including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis (except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, or compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods), as are fomid by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan; (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such infornuition, as the Secretary may from time to time reasonably require, and will keep such records and att'ord such access thereto as the Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; (7) provide that the Comptroller General of the United States or his duly authorized representatives shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to the records specified in paragraph (6); (8) provide that the State agency will from time to time, but not less often than annually, review its State plan and submit to the Secretary any modifications thereof which it considers necessary: (9) provide reasonable assurance that Federal funds made available under this part for any period will be so used as to supplement and increase, to the extent feasible and practical, the level of State, local, and other non-Federal funds that would in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for the programs described in this part, and will in no event supplant such State, local, and other non-Federal funds; and (10) contain such additional information and assurance as the Secretary may find necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this part. (b) The Secretary shall approve any State plan and any modifica- ^*^'* P^^"^' tion thereof which complies with the provisions of subsection (a). ^pp'o^ai. PART B — P R O J E C T GRANTS AXD CONTRACTS ORAXTS AND CONTRACT^ FOR THE PREVEXTIOX AXD TREATMENT OF ALCOHOL ABUSE AXD ALCOHOLISM

S E C 311. Section 247 of part C of the Community Mental Health O u t e r s Act is amended to read as follows: " U R A X T S AXD CONTRACTS FOR THE r R E \ T. X ' n 0 X AXD T R E A T M E N T OF ALCOHOL ABUSE A N D ALCOHOLISM

"SEC. 247. (a) The Secretary, acting through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, may make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions and may enter into c(mtracts with public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions, and individuals— " (1) to conduct demonstration, service, and evaluation projects, " (2) to provide education and training, "(3) to provide programs and services in cooperation with schools, courts, penal institutions, and other public agencies, and "(4) to provide counseling and education activities on an individual or community basis.

^2 Stat. ioo9; Ante, p. 5 9. 42 USC 2688J-2.

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