Volume 96 · 1183
Public Law 97–274
To amend the Community Services Block Grant Act to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to designate community action agencies for certain community action programs administered by the Secretary for fiscal year 1982, and for other purposes.
Approved September 30, 1982
Statutory text
An Act
To amend the Community Services Block Grant Act to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to designate community action agencies for certain community action programs administered by the Secretary for fiscal year 1982, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section
Community Services Block Grant Act, amendment.
682(b)(4) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9911(b)(4)) is amended—
by inserting “(A)” after “(4)”;
by inserting “or to entities designated under subparagraph (B)” before the period at the end thereof; and
by adding at the end thereof the following new subparagraph:
“(B) (i) In any case in which a community action agency is denied refunding or is terminated for cause by the Secretary during fiscal year 1982 (regardless of whether such community action agency seeks review of such determination), the Secretary, with the concurrence of the chief executive officer of the State involved, may designate another public or private nonprofit agency to administer a community action program (as defined in section 210(a) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as in effect on September 30,
1981) in the same community.
“(ii) If, after the Secretary makes a designation under clause (i) and before the State involved begins operating programs under the block grant established in this subtitle, a final determination is made to restore funding to the community action agency which was terminated or whose refunding was denied, then the agency desig-nated under clause (i) shall lose its designation (as of the effective date of such final determination).
“(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, if the Secretary makes a designation under clause (i), then the agency so designated shall be considered to be an eligible entity for purposes of this subtitle through fiscal year 1983.”.
Approved September 30, 1982.