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 94 STAT. 1590 Educational or informational services.

Biennial report to Secretary.

Agreement application. Notice, publication in Federal Register. Grants to States. Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980

(D) A State mental health authority shall provide educational or informational services to educate the population of the State regarding the problems of chronically mentally ill individuals, the need for community involvement in programs designed to resolve the problems of chronically mentally ill individuals outside institutional settings, and the resources available or needed to help such programs succeed. (E) A State mental health authority shall improve the skills of personnel involved in providing services for chronically mentally ill individuals through inservice training, retraining, or other training of such personnel. (F) A State mental health authority shall provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that it will submit a biennial report to the Secretary regarding its efforts and progress under this paragraph, including the manner in which the needs of chronically mentally ill individuals in each mental health service area in the State are being met within the community and the State's progress in implementing mechanisms to ensure that, as chronically mentally ill individuals are discharged from mental health facilities, increased State mental health funds are available for community-based care. (c) No agreement may be entered into under subsection (a) with a State mental health authority unless the authority has submitted an application to the Secretary in such form and manner as the Secretary shall prescribe. The Secretary shall publish a notice in the Federal Register identifying the States which have made an application for an agreement under subsection (a) and, in considering an application, the Secretary shall provide a reasonable opportunity for submission of comments on the application. (d) The Secretary may make grants to States which have entered into agreements under subsection (a) for purposes of assisting the States in meeting the costs of carrying out the agreements. For grants authorized by this subsection there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, $4,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984. PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS BY STATE MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES

42 USC 9462. Ante, p. 1571.

Hearing.

SEC. 306. (a) Each applicant for a grant under title II (other than an applicant for a grant under section 207 or 208) shall submit its application to the State mental health authority for its State in accordance with such requirements as the authority may prescribe. Cb)(l) If a State mental health authority has entered into an agreement under section 305, the authority shall carry out the following: (A) The authority shall consider the applications submitted to it in accordance with subsection (a), and, in the course of such consideration, shall provide the applicants and other interested persons with a reasonable opportunity for a hearing before the authority on the applications. The authority shall also provide a reasonable opportunity for a hearing on applications the authority proposes to submit for itself to the Secretary. (B) The authority may modify any application submitted to it and may return an application to an applicant. (C) The authority shall (i) rank all the applications which the authority proposes to transmit to the Secretary in the order in which the authority determines the applications should be

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