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Chairman. Meetings.

Report.

Hearing.

6 u d g e t, review and report. Applications for grants, review and report. Post, p. 2273.

42 USC 2681 note. 42 USC 4551 note.

PUBLIC LAW 93-641-JAN. 4, 1975

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" (D) Where two or more hospitals or other health care facilities of the Veterans' Administration are located in a State, the SHCC shall, in addition to the appointed members, include, as an ex officio member, an individual whom the Chief Medical Director of the Veterans' Administration shall have designated as a representative of such facilities. "(2) The SHCC shall select from among its members a chairman. "(3) The SHCC shall conduct all of its business meetings in public, and shall meet at least once in each calendar quarter of a year. "(c) A SHCC shall perform the following functions: "(1) Review annually and coordinate the H S P and A I P of each health systems agency within the State and report to the Secretary, for purposes of his review under section 1535(c), its comments on such H S P and A I P. "(2)(A) Prepare and review and revise as necessary (but at least annually) a State health plan which shall be made up of the H S P ' s of the health systems agencies within the State. Such plan may, as found necessary by the SHCC, contain revisions of such H S P ' s to achieve their appropriate coordination or to deal more effectively with statewide health needs. Each health systems agency which participates in the SHCC shall make available to the SHCC its H S P for each year for integration into the State health plan and shall, as required by the SHCC, revise its H S P to achieve appropriate coordination with the H S P ' s of the other agencies which participate in the SHCC or to deal more effectively with statewide health needs. " (B) In the preparation and revision of the State health plan, the SHCC shall review and consider the preliminary State health plan submitted by the State agency under section 1523(a)(2), and shall conduct a public hearing on the plan as proposed and shall give interested persons an opportunity to submit their views orally and in writing. Not less than thirty days prior to any such hearing, the SHCC shall publish in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the State a notice of its consideration of the proposed plan, the time and place of the hearing, the place at which interested persons may consult the plan in advance of the hearing, and the place and period during which to direct written comment to the SHCC on the plan. "(3) Review annually the budget of each such health systems agency and report to the Secretary, for purposes of his review under section 1535(a), its comments on such budget. "(4) Review applications submitted by such health systems agencies for grants under sections 1516 and 1640 and report to the Secretary its comments on such applications. "(5) Advise the State Agency of the State generally on the performance of its functions. " (6) Review annually and approve or disapprove any State plan and any application (and any revision of a State plan or application) submitted to the Secretary as a condition to the receipt of any funds under allotments made to States under this Act, the Community Mental Health Centers Act, or the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other Act referred to in the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall allow a SHCC sixty days to make the review required by such sentence. If a SHCC disapproves such a State plan or application, the Secretary may not make Federal funds available under such State plan or application until he has made,

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