42 U.S.C. § 300c–22 — Blood-separation centers

(a) Grants and contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for projects to develop and expand existing facilities; definitions: The Secretary may give grants to, and sign contracts with, public and nonprofit private groups, to fund projects that develop and expand - within facilities that already exist - blood-separation centers. These centers separate whole blood into its parts and make those parts available to blood service providers and to manufacturers of blood fractions. This section uses two defined terms: (1) "blood components" means the parts of whole blood used for therapy that come from physically separating it - resulting in licensed products like red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells, AHF-rich plasma, fresh-frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, and single-unit plasma for infusion; and (2) "blood fractions" means the parts of plasma used for therapy that come from licensed manufacturing processes - resulting in licensed products like normal serum albumin, plasma protein fraction, prothrombin complex, fibrinogen, AHF concentrate, immune serum globulin, and hyperimmune globulins. (b) Grants for alleviation of insufficient supplies of blood fractions: If the Secretary finds there isn't enough blood fraction supply to treat people with hemophilia, and finds that public or nonprofit centers already making blood fractions could fix that shortage with some help, the Secretary may give those centers grants of up to $500,000 to help fix the shortage. (c) Approval of application as prerequisite for grant or contract: No grant or contract can be made under (a) or (b) unless an application has been submitted and approved by the Secretary. The application must follow whatever form, submission process, and content requirements the Secretary sets by regulation. (d) Nonapplicability of statutory provisions to contracts: Contracts made under (a) do not have to follow the normal contracting rules in section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 or section 6101 of title 41. (e) Authorization of appropriations: Congress could appropriate money to pay for grants and contracts under (a) and (b): $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $3,450,000 for fiscal year 1978, $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1979, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, and $3,500,000 for fiscal year 1981.