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 PUBLIC LAW 94-437—SEPT. 30, 1976

90 STAT. 1411

(8) make recommendations to the Secretary and Federal, State, local, and other resource agencies on methods of improving health service programs to meet the needs of urban Indians; and (9) where necessary, provide or contract for health care services to urban Indians. (b) The Secretary, acting through the Service, shall by regulation Urban Indian prescribe the criteria for selecting urban Indian organizations with organizations, which to contract pursuant to this title. Such criteria shall, among selection criteria. other factors, take into consideration: (1) the extent of the unmet health care needs of urban Indians in the urban center involved; (2) the size of the urban Indian population which is to receive assistance; (3) the relative accessibility which such population has to health care services in such urban center'; (4) the extent, if any, to which the activities set forth in subsection (a) would duplicate any previous or current public or private health services project funded by another source in such urban center; (5) the appropriateness and likely effectiveness of the activities set forth in subsection (a) in such urban center; (6) the existence of an urban Indian organization capable of performing the activities set forth in subsection (a) and of entering into a contract with the Secretary pursuant to this title; and (7) the extent of existing or likely future participation in the activities set forth in subsection (a) by appropriate health and health-related Federal, State, local, and other resource agencies. OTHER CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS

SEC. 504. (a) Contracts with urban Indian organizations pursuant to this title shall be in accordance with all Federal contracting laws and regulations except that, in the discretion of the Secretary, such contracts may be negotiated without advertising and need not conform to the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1935 (48 Stat. 793), as amended. (b) Payments under any contracts pursuant to this title may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. (c) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary may, at the request or consent of an urban Indian organization, revise or amend any contract made by him with such organization pursuant to this title as necessary to carry out the purposes of this title: Provided, however, That whenever an urban Indian organization requests retrocession of the Secretary for any contract entered into pursuant to this title, such retrocession shall become effective upon a date specified by the Secretary not more than one hundred and twenty days from the date of the request by the organization or at such later date as may be mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the organization. (d) In connection with any contract made pursuant to this title, the Secretary may permit an urban Indian organization to utilize, in carrying out such contract, existing facilities owned by the Federal Government within his jurisdiction under such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon for their use and maintenance.

25 USC 1654.

49 Stat. 793. 40 USC 270a270d. Contract revision or amendment.

Government facilities, use.

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