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PUBLIC LAW 93-154-NOV. 16, 1973

[87 STAT.

"GEXERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

"Eligible ^"*'*^• ^ Ante. pp. 595-

"SEC. 1206. (a) For purposes of sections 1202, 1203, and 1204, the term 'eligible entity' means— u^^) a State, " (2) a unit of general local government, "(3) a public entity administering a compact or other regional arrangement or consortium, or "(4) any other public entity and any nonprofit private entity. " (b)(1) No grant or contract may be made under this title unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. Priority con"(2) l u cousidering applications submitted under this title, the era ion. Secretary shall give priority to applications submitted by the entities described in clauses (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a). "(3) No application for a grant or contract under section 1202 may be approved unless— " (A) the application meets the application requirements of such section; " (B) in the case of an application submitted by a public entity administering a compact or other regional arrangement or consortium, the compact or other regional arrangement or consortium includes each unit of general local government of each standard metropolitan statistical area (as determined by the Office of Management and Budget) located (in whole or in part) in the service area of the emergency medical services system for which the application is submitted; "(C) in the case of an application submitted by an entity described in clause (4) of subsection (a), such entity has provided a copy of its application to each entity described in clauses (1), (2), and (3) of such subsection which is located (in whole or in part) in the service area of the emergency medical services system for which the application is submitted and has provided each such entity a reasonable opportunity to submit to the Secretary comments on the application; "(D)the— "(i) section 314(a) State health planning agency of each State in which the service area of the emergency medical services system for which the application is submitted will be located, and "(ii) section 314(b) areawide health planning agency (if any) whose section 314(b) plan covers (in whole or in part) the service area of such system, have had not less than thirty days (measured from the date a copy of the application was submitted to the agency by the applicant) in which to comment on the application; re^oTtrfo iiEw^' " (E) ^hc applicant agrees to maintain such records and make such reports to the Secretary as the Secretary determines are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title; and

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