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PUBLIC LAW 93-641-JAN. 4, 1975

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health systems agencies and States Agencies may vary according to the purpose for which a particular review is being conducted or the type of health services being reviewed. "(J3) Each health systems agency and State Agency shall include in the procedures required by subsection (a) at least the following: "(1) Written notification to affected persons of the beginning of a review\ " (2) Schedules for reviews which provide that no review shall, to the extent practicable, take longer than ninety days from the date the notification described in paragraph (1) is made. "(3) Provision for persons subject to a review to submit to the agency or State Agency (in such form and manner as the agency or State Agency shall prescribe and publish) such information as the agency or State Agency may require concerning the subject of such review. "(4) Submission of applications (subject to review by a health systems agency or a State Agency) made under this Act or other provisions of law- for Federal financial assistance for health services to the health systems agency or State Agency at such time and in such manner as it may require. "(5) Submission of periodic reports by providers of health services and other persons subject to agency or State Agency review respecting the development of proposals subject to review. " (6) Provision for written findings which state the basis for any final decision or recommendation made by the agency or State Agency. "(7) Notification of providers of health services and other persons subject to agency or State Agency review of the status of the agency or State Agency review of the health services or proposals subject to review, findings made in the course of such review, and other appropriate information respecting such review. "(8) Provision for public hearings in the course of agency or State Agency review if requested by persons directly affected by the review; and provision for public hearings, for good cause shown, respecting agency and State Agency decisions. "(9) Preparation and publication of regular reports by the agency and State Agency of the reviews being conducted (including a statement concerning the status of each such review) and of the reviews completed by the agency and State Ajjencv (including a general statement of the findings and decisions made in the course of such reviews) since the publication of the last such report. " (10) Access by the general public to all applications reviewed by the agency and State Agency and to all other Avritten materials pertinent to any agency or State Agency review\ "(11) I n the case of construction projects, submission to the agency and State Agency by the entities proposing the projects of letters of intent in such detail as may be necessary to inform the agency and State Agency of the scope and nature of the projects at the earliest possible opportunity in the course of planning of such construction projects. "(c) Criteria required by subsection (a) for health systems agency and State Agency review shall include consideration of at least the following: "(1) The relationship of the health services being reviewed to the applicable H S P and A I P. "(2) The relationship of services reviewed to the long-range development plan (if any) of the person providing or proposing such services.

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