42 U.S.C. § 300t — Development grants for health systems agencies

(a) Eligible recipients; purpose of grants. The Secretary must give a grant each fiscal year to every health systems agency that (1) has a valid designation agreement in effect under section 300l–4(c); (2) has a current HSP and AIP that the Statewide Health Coordinating Council has reviewed; and (3) — as confirmed by the review under section 300n–4(c) — is organized and run the way section 300l–1(b) requires and is performing its duties under section 300l–2 to the Secretary's satisfaction. The grant lets the agency set up and maintain an Area Health Service Development Fund, which it uses to make grants and contracts under section 300l–2(c)(3). (b) Determination of amounts; maximum amounts. (1) Except as paragraph (2) limits it, the Secretary sets the grant amount by considering the population of the agency's health service area, the area's average family income, and how many health services already exist there. (2) No matter what, a single agency's grant for a fiscal year can't exceed $1 multiplied by the population of its designated health service area. (c) Applications; submission and approval as prerequisite; form and contents. No grant can be made unless an application has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary, in whatever form and manner, and with whatever information, the Secretary requires. (d) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976; $120,000,000 each for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1977 and September 30, 1978; $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981; and $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982.