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PUBLIC LAW 92-255-MAR. 21, 1972

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and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, conduct, and evaluate drug abuse prevention and treatment programs, (b) There are authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal Appropriation. year ending June 30, 1972; $65,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974; and $160,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to carry out this section. (c)(1) In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall require coordination of all applications for programs in a State and shall not give precedence to public agencies over private agencies, institutions, and organizations, or to State agencies over local agencies. (2) Each applicant within a State, upon filing its application 'with Project the Secretary for a grant or contract under this section, shall submit a copy of its application for review by the State agency (if any) designated or established under section 409. Such State agency shall be given not more than thirty days from the date of receipt of the application to submit to the Secretary, in writing, an evaluation of the project set forth in the application. Such evaluation shall include comments on the relationship of the project to other projects pending and approved and to the State comprehensive plan for treatment and prevention of drug abuse under section 409. The State shall furnish the applicant a copy of any such evaluation. A State if it so desires may, in writing, waive its rights under this paragraph. (3) Approval of any application for a grant or contract under this,„^f^,|i^^*^°" section by the Secretary, including the earmarking of financial assist- approval. ance for a program or project, may be granted only if the application substantially meets a set of criteria that (A) provide that the activities and services for which assistance under this section is sought will be substantially administered by or under the supervision of the applicant; (B) provide for such methods of administration as are necessary for the proper and efficient operation of such programs or projects; (C) provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant; and (D) provide for reasonable assurance that Federal funds made available under this section 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 section, and will in no event supplant such State, local, and other non-Federal funds. (d) Payment under grants or contracts under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments as the Secretary may determine. § 411. Records and audit. (a) Each recipient of assistance under section 409 or 410 pursuant to grants or contracts entered into under other than competitive bidding procedures shall keep such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such grant or contract, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection w4th which such grant or contract is given or used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit. (b) The Secretary and Comptroller General of the United States,

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