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 PUBLIC LAW 94-317—JUNE 23, 1976 the applicant who are most susceptible to the diseases or conditions referred to in subsection (f) of appropriate preventive behavior and measures (including immunizations) and diagnostic procedures for such diseases, and (ii) to facilitate their access to such measures and procedures; and "(C) provide for the reporting to the Secretary of such information as he may require concerning (i) the problems, in the area served by the applicant, which relate to any disease or condition referred to in subsection (f), and (ii) the disease control programs of the applicant for which a grant is applied for. In considering such an application the Secretary shall take into account the relative extent, in the area served by the applicant, of the problems which relate to one or more of the diseases or conditions referred to in subsection (f) and the extent to which the applicant's programs are designed to eliminate or reduce such problems. The Secretary shall give special consideration to applications for programs which (A) will increase to at least 80 per centum the immunization rates of any population identified as not having received, or as having failed to secure, the generally recognized disease immunizations, and (B) to the fullest extent practicable, will cooperate and use public and nonprofit private entities and volunteers. The Secretary shall give priority to applications submitted for disease control programs for communicable diseases. "(c)(1) Each grant under subsection (a) shall be made for disease control program costs in the one-year period beginning on the first day of the first month beginning after the month in which the grant is made. "(2) Payments under grants under subsection (a) may be made in advance on the basis of estimates or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of underpayments or overpayments, and in such installments and on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. "(3) The Secretary, at the request of a recipient of a grant under subsection (a), may reduce the amount of such grant by— " (A) the fair market value of any supplies (including vaccines and other prevention agents) or equipment furnished the grant recipient, and "(B) the amount of the pay, allowances, and travel expenses of any officer or employee of the Government when detailed to the recipient and the amount of any other costs incurred in connection with the detail of such officer or employee, when the furnishing of such supplies or equipment or the detail of such an officer or employee is for the convenience of and at the request of such recipient and for the purpose of carrying out a program with respect to which the recipient's grant under subsection (a) is made. The amount by which any such grant is so reduced shall be available for payment by the Secretary of the costs incurred in furnishing the supplies or equipment, or in detailing the personnel, on which the reduction of such grant is based, and such amount shall be deemed as part of the grant and shall be deemed to have been paid to the recipient. "(d)(1) The Secretary may conduct, and may make grants to and enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for the conduct of— "(A) training for the administration and operation of disease prevention and control programs, and "(B) demonstrations and evaluations of such programs.

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