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" (B) provide for such methods of administration as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of such functions and the State Program, including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis consistent with such standards as are or may be established by the Civil Service Commission under section 208(a) of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-648), but the Secretary shall exercise no 42 USC 4728. authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with the methods relating to personnel standards on a merit basis established and maintained in conformity with this paragraph; "(5) require the State Agency to perform its functions in accordance with procedures and criteria established and published by it, which procedures and criteria shall conform to the requirements of section 1532; " (6) require the State Agency to (A) conduct its business meetings in public, (B) give adequate notice to the public of such meetings, and (C) make its records and data available, upon request, to the public; "(7)(A) provide for the coordination (in accordance with regulations of the Secretary) with the cooperative system provided for under section 306(e) of the activities of the State Agency Ante, p. 365. for the collection, retrieval, analysis, reporting, and publication of statistical and other information related to health and health care, and (B) require providers of health care doing business in Reports. the State to make statistical and other reports of cuch information to the State Agency; "(8) provide, in accordance with methods and procedures preafua°i^n"'^^ scribed or approved by the Secretary, for the evaluation, at least annually, of the performance by the State Agency of its functions and of their economic effectiveness; " (9) provide that the State Agency will from time to time, and Review of state in any event not less often than annually, review the State Pro- P"^^'"' gram and submit to the Secretary required modifications; "(10) require the State Agency to make such reports, in such Reports; recordform and containing such information, concerning its structure, ''^^P'"^operations, performance of functions, and other matters as the Secretary may from time to time require, and keep such records and afford such access thereto as the Secretary may find necessary to verify such reports; "(11) require the State Agency to provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as the Secretary may require to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, amounts received from the Secretary under this title; "(12) permit the Secretary and the Comptroller General of the ^"'^^'• United States, or their representatives, to have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of the State Agency pertinent to the disposition of amounts received from the Secretary under this title; and "(13) provide that if the State Agency makes a decision in the performance of a function under paragraph (3), (4), (5), or (6) of section 1523(a) or under title X VI which is inconsistent P°S(, p. 2258. with a recommendation made under subsection (f), (g), or (h) of section 1513 by a health systems agency within the State— " (A) such decision (and the record upon which it was made) shall, upon request of the health systems agency, be reviewed, under an appeals mechanism consistent with State

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