(B) The Federal percentages under clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall be promulgated by the Secretary, between January 1 and March 31 of each even-numbered year, on the basis of the average of the per capita incomes of each of the States subject to such Federal percentages and of all the States subject to such percentages for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. Such promulgation shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning October 1 next succeeding such promulgation. APPROVAL OF PROJECTS SEC. 222. [2689j] (a) For each project for a community mental health center facility pursuant to a State plan approved under section 237, there shall be submitted to the Secretary, through the State agency of the State, an application by the State or a political subdivision thereof or by a public or other nonprofit agency. If two or more such agencies join in the project, the application may be filed by one or more of such agencies. Such application shall set forth (1) a description of the site for such project; (2) plans and specifications therefor in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary under section 236; (3) except in the case of a leasing project, reasonable assurance that title to such site is or will be vested in one or more of the agencies filing the application or in a public or nonprofit private agency which is to operate the community mental health center; (4) reasonable assurance that adequate financial support will be available for the project and for its maintenance and operation when completed; (5) reasonable assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of work on a construction or remodeling project will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a-5, known as the Davis-Bacon Act), and the Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to such labor standards the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 5 U.S.C. Appendix) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934 (40 U.S.C. 276c); (6) a certification by the State agency of the Federal share for the project; and (7) the assurances described in section 206(c). Each applicant shall be afforded an opportunity for a hearing before the State agency respecting its application. For purposes of paragraph (3), the term "title" means a fee simple or such other estate or interest (including a leasehold on which the rental does not exceed 4 per centum of the value of the land) as the Secretary finds sufficient to assure for a period of not less than fifty years undisturbed use and possession for the purposes of acquisition, remodeling, construction, or expansion of a facility and its operation. (b) The Secretary shall approve an application submitted in accordance with subsection (a) if— (1) sufficient funds to pay the Federal share for the project for which the application was submitted are available from the allotment to the State; (2) the Secretary finds that the application meets the applicable requirements of subsection (a) and the community mental health center for which the application was submitted will meet the requirements of the State plan (under section 237) of the State in which the project is located; and (3) the Secretary finds that the application has been approved and recommended by the State agency and is entitled to priority over other projects within the State, as determined under the State plan. No application shall be disapproved by the Secretary until he has afforded the State agency an opportunity for a hearing. The Secretary may not approve an application under this part for a project for a facility for community mental health center or other entity which received a grant under section 220, 242, 243, 251, 256, 264, or 271 of this title (as in effect before the date of the enactment of the Community Mental Health Centers Amendments of 1975 (from appropriations for a fiscal year ending before July 1, 1975, unless the Secretary determines that the application is for a project for a center or entity which upon completion of such project will be able to significantly expand its services and which demonstrates exceptional financial need for assistance under this part for such project. Amendment of any approved application shall be subject to approval in the same manner as an original application. PAYMENTS SEC. 223. [2689k] (a)(1) Upon certification to the Secretary by the State agency, based upon inspection by it, that work has been performed upon a remodeling, construction, or expansion project, or purchases for such a project have been made, in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, and that payment of an installment is due to the applicant, such installment shall be paid to the State, from the applicable allotment of such State, except that (1) if the State is not authorized by law to make payments to the applicant, the payment shall be made directly to the applicant, (2) if the secretary, after investigation or otherwise, has reason to believe that any act (or failure to act) has occurred requiring action pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, payment may, after he has given the State agency notice of opportunity for hearing pursuant to such section, be withheld in whole or in part, pending corrective action or action based on such hearing, and (3) the total payments with respect to such project may not exceed an amount equal to the Federal share of the cost of such project. (2) If an amendment to an approved application is approved or the estimated cost of a remodeling, construction, or expansion project is revised upward, any additional payment with respect thereto may be made from the applicable allotment of the State for the fiscal year in which such amendment or revision is approved. (b) Payments from a State allotment for acquisition and leasing projects shall be made in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall promulgate. (c)(1) If the Secretary finds that (A) a State agency is not substantially complying with the provisions required by section 237 to be in a State plan or with regulations issued under section 236; (B) any assurance required to be in an application filed under section 222 is not being carried out; (C) there is substantial failure to carry out plans and specifications approved by the Secretary under section 222; or (D) adequate State funds are not being provided annually for the direct administration of a State plan approved under section 237, the Secretary may take the action authorized under paragraph (2) of this subsection if the finding was made after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the involved State agency. (2) If the Secretary makes a finding described in paragraph (1), he may notify the involved State agency, which is the subject of the finding or which is connected with a project or State plan which is the subject of the finding, that— (A) no further payments will be made to the State from allotments under section 227; or (B) no further payments will be made from allotments under section 227 for any project or projects designated by the Secretary as being affected by the action or inaction referred to in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1), as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate under the circumstances; and, except with regard to any project for which the application has already been approved and which is not directly affected, further payments from such allotments may be withheld, in whole or in part, until there is no longer any failure to comply (or to carry out the assurance or plans and specifications or to provide adequate State funds, as the case may be) or, if such compliance (or other action) is impossible, until the State repays or arranges for the repayment of Federal moneys to which the recipient was not entitled. SEC. 224. [26891] If— JUDICIAL REVIEW (1) the Secretary refuses to approve an application for a project submitted under section 222, the State agency through which such application was submitted, or (2) any State is dissatisfied with the Secretary's action under section 223(c) or 237(c), such State, may appeal to the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State agency or State is located, by filing a petition with such court within sixty days after such action. A copy of the petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary, or any officer designated by him for that purpose. The Secretary thereupon shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his action, as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary or to set it aside, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, but, until the filing of the record, the Secretary may modify or set aside his order. The findings of the Secretary as to the facts, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive, but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case to the Secretary to take further evidence, and the Secretary may thereupon make new or modified findings of facts and may modify his previous action, and shall file in the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence. The judgment of the court affirming or setting aside, in whole or in part, any action of the Secretary shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code. The commencement of proceedings under this section shall not, unless so specifically ordered by the court, operate as a stay of the Secretary's action. RECOVERY SEC. 225. [2689m] If any facility of a community mental health center acquired, remodeled, constructed, or expanded with funds provided under this title is, at any time within twenty years after the completion of such remodeling, construction, or expansion or after the date of its acquisition with such funds (1) sold or transferred to any person or entity (A) which is not qualified to file an application under section 222, or (B) which is not approved as a transferee by the State agency of the State in which such facility is located, or its successor; or (2) not used by a community mental health center in the provision of comprehensive mental health services, and the Secretary has not determined that there is good cause for termination of such use, the United States shall be entitled to recover from either the transferor or the transferee in the case of a sale or transfer or from the owner in the case of termination of use an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value (as determined by the agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States district court for the district in which the center is situated) of so much of such facility or center as constituted and approved project or projects, as the amount of the Federal participation bore to the acquisition, remodeling, construction, or expansion cost of such project or proj ects. Such right of recovery shall not constitute a lien upon such facility or center prior to judgment. NONDUPLICATION SEC. 226. [2689n] No grant may be made under the Public Health Service Act for the remodeling, construction, or expansion of a facility for a community mental health center unless the Secretary determines that there are no funds available under this part, for the remodeling, construction, or expansion of such facility. ALLOTMENTS TO STATES SEC. 227. [26890] (a) In each fiscal year, the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, make allotments, from the sums appropriated under section 228, to the States (with State plans approved under section 237) on the basis of (1) the population, (2) the extent of the need for community mental health centers, and (3) the financial need, of the respective States; except that no such allotment to any State, other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in any fiscal year may be less than $100,000. Sums so allotted to a State other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State for such purpose in the next fiscal year (and in such year only), in addition to the sums allotted for such State in such next fiscal year. Sums so allotted to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State for such purpose in the next two fiscal years (and in such years only), in addition to the sums allotted to such State for such purpose in each of such next two fiscal years. (b) The amount of an allotment under subsection (a) to a State in a fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required by the State during the period for which it is available for the purpose for which allotted shall be available for reallotment by the Secretary from time to time, on such date or dates as he may fix, to other States with respect to which a determination has not been made, in proportion to the original allotments of such States for such fiscal year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary estimates such State needs and will be able to use during such period; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount so reallotted to a State in a fiscal year shall be deemed to be a part of its allotment under subsection (a) in such fiscal year. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 228. [2689p] There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, for allotments under section 227. PART D-RAPE PREVENTION AND CONTROL 1 PART E-GENERAL PROVISIONS DEFINITIONS SEC. 235. [2689r] For purposes of this title (1) The term "State" includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the District of Columbia. (2) The term "State agency" means the State mental health authority for which grants are authorized under section 314(d) of the Public Health Service Act. (3) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. 1 Part D repealed by section 601(f) of the Mental Health Systems Act (P.L. 96-398). |