Special project grants and contracts.

§ 410. Special project grants and contracts. (a) The Secretary shall (1) make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions and enter into contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals to provide training seminars, educational programs, and technical assistance for the development of drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs for employees in the private and public sectors; (2) make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions and enter into contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions, to provide directly or through contractual arrangements for vocational rehabilitation counseling, education, and services for the benefit of persons in treatment programs and to encourage efforts by the private and public sectors of the economy to recruit, train, and employ participants in treatment programs; (3) make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions and enter into contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, conduct, and evaluate drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs within State and local criminal justice systems: (4) make grants to or contracts with groups composed of individuals representing a broad cross-section of medical, scientific, or social disciplines for the purpose of determining the causes of drug abuse in a particular area, prescribing; methods for dealing with drug abuse in such an area, or conducting programs for dealing with drug abuse in such an area; (5) make research grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions and enter into contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions, and individuals for improved drug maintenance techniques or programs; and (6) make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions and enter into contracts with public 86 Stat. 83and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, conduct, and evaluate drug abuse prevention and treatment programs. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972; $05,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974; and $160,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to carry out this section. (c) (1) In earning out this section, the Secretary shall require coordination of all applications for programs in a State and shall not give precedence to public agencies over private agencies, institutions, and organizations, or to State agencies over local agencies. (2) Each applicant within a State, upon filing its application with the Secretary for a grant or contract under this section, shall submit a copy of its application for review by the State agency (if any) designated or established under section 469. Such State agency shall be given not more than thirty days from the date of receipt of the application to submit to the Secretary, in writing, an evaluation of the project set forth in the application. Such evaluation shall include comments on I he relationship of the project to other projects pending and approved and to the State comprehensive plan for treatment and prevention of drug abuse under section 409. The State shall furnish the applicant a copy of any such evaluation. A State if it so desires may, in writing, waive its rights under this paragraph. (3) Approval of any application for a grant or contract under this section by the Secretary, including the earmarking of financial assistance for a program or project, may be granted only if the application substantially meets a set of criteria that (A) provide that the activities and services for which assistance under this section is sought will be substantially administered by or under the supervision of the applicant; (B) provide for such methods of administration as are necessary for the proper and efficient operation of such programs or projects; (C) provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant; and (D) provide for reasonable assurance that Federal funds made available under this section for any period will be so used as to supplement and increase, to the extent feasible and practical, the level of State, local, and other non-Federal funds that would in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for the programs described in this section, and will in no event supplant such State, local, and other non-Federal funds. (d) Payment under grants or contracts under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments as the Secretary may determine.