Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/631

 PUBLIC LAW 96-79—OCT. 4, 1979

93 STAT. 599

"(B)(i) If the application of the health systems agency for such grant states that the agency, in its latest fiscal year ending before the period in which such grant will be available for obligation, collected non-Federal funds meeting the requirements of clause (ii) for the purposes for which such grant may be made, the amount of such grant shall be the sum of— "(I) the amount determined under subparagraph (A) or (C), whichever is applicable, and "(II) the lesser of the amount of such non-Federal funds or $200,000 or the product of $0.25 and the population of the health service area for which the agency is designated, whichever is greater, "(ii) The non-Federal funds which an agency may use for the purpose of obtaining a grant under subsection (a) which is computed on the basis of the formula prescribed by clause (i) shall be funds which are not paid to the agency for the performance of particular services by it and which are otherwise contributed to the agency without conditions as to their use other than the condition that the funds shall be used for the purposes for which a grant made under this section may be used. "(C) The amount of a grant to a health systems agency may not be less than— "(i) in the case of a grant made in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $175,000 and, to the extent appropriations are specifically made after October 1, 1979, to provide the additional amount authorized by this clause, an amount ) which bears the same ratio to $50,000 as the number of days beginning in the period beginning on October 1, 1979, and ending on the date of the period for which the grant was made bears to 365, "(ii) $225,000 in the case of a grant made in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, "(iii) $245,000 in the case of a grant made in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and "(iv) $260,000 in the case of a grant made in any succeeding fiscal year. "(2) If the Secretary determines, after review of the budget of a health systems agency and after consultation with the State health planning and development agency of the State in which such agency is located, that the amount of a grant which is to be made to the agency in accordance with paragraph (1) is in excess of the amount needed by the agency to adequately perform its functions under its designation agreement, the amount of the grant to the agency shall be such amount as the Secretary determines the agency needs for the performance of such functions.'. (b) Subsection (d) (as so redesignated) is amended by striking out ^"^«' P- 598. paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(2) Of the amount appropriated under paragraph (1) for any fiscal year, the Secretary may use not more than 5 per centum of such amount to increase the amount of grants in such fiscal year to health systems agencies under subsection (a) to assist the agencies in meeting extraordinary expenses (including extraordinary expenses resulting from an agency's health service area being located in more than one State or from an agency serving a large rural or urban medically underserved population or a geographically large health service area) which would not be covered under the amount of a grant that would be available to an agency under subsection (c) and in improving their performance as a result of the development and implementation of innovative health planning techniques.

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