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 to evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of the essential public health services that are provided under the grant. 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.