1. (a) The department shall specify reasonable requirements for grant applications.

2. (b) Applicants for grants shall submit, as a part of their application, a preliminary plan that identifies a public health issue and outlines strategies to evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of the essential public health services that are provided under the grant to address the public health issue, and to demonstrate how the project will build capacity within the community to continue to address the public health issue after the project has been completed. If the applicant is awarded a grant, the grant recipient will work with the department to finalize the preliminary plan required in this section. The plan must, at a minimum:

   1. (1) identify the outcomes that are intended to result from the use of the grant money and establish a mechanism to measure those outcomes; and
   2. (2) establish performance standards for the delivery of essential public health services and a mechanism to measure compliance with those standards.
3. (c) Grant recipients shall make quarterly reports to the department, in a form and at a time determined by the department.
4. (d) Grant recipients under Part III must assure that they have a local health authority, as defined under the Local Public Health Reorganization Act, Health and Safety Code, Chapter 121, prior to the grant funds being awarded. A department regional director cannot serve as the local health authority for Part III grant recipients.

Source Note:The provisions of this §83.7 adopted to be effective February 10, 2000, 25 TexReg 779; amended to be effective August 29, 2002, 27 TexReg 7805.