| (a) The council shall adopt a grant issuance plan that
allocates grant funds among one or more grant cycles.
(b) The grant issuance plan shall include:
(1) the number and order of grant cycles;
(2) the category or categories, and one or more eligible
strategies within each category, that will be eligible for grant funding
during each grant cycle;
(3) the amount of grant funds allocated to each grant
cycle;
(4) the parameters for the regional component of each
grant cycle;
(5) the parameters for the targeted intervention component
of each grant cycle; and
(6) any other information necessary to implement the
grant issuance plan, such as any matching or volunteer requirements,
any limitations to the types of eligible applicants, or other requirements.
(c) Grant awards made each grant cycle will include
one or more of the categories listed in §16.201(b) of this subchapter.
(d) The council shall designate one or more eligible
strategies within each category for each grant cycle in accordance
with the priority ranking adopted under §16.201(c) of this subchapter.
(e) Each grant cycle will be divided into two main
funding components:
(1) Of the funds allocated to a grant cycle, 75% shall
be allocated among the regional healthcare partnership regions using
the following regional allocations:
(A) Each region's allocation will be determined using
the following regional allocations:
(i) 5.515633% allocated to region 1.
(ii) 7.813739% allocated to region 2.
(iii) 17.455365% allocated to region 3.
(iv) 3.902955% allocated to region 4.
(v) 2.542550% allocated to region 5.
(vi) 9.845317% allocated to region 6.
(vii) 7.285670% allocated to region 7.
(viii) 3.495025% allocated to region 8.
(ix) 9.594819% allocated to region 9.
(x) 9.457202% allocated to region 10.
(xi) 1.372268% allocated to region 11.
(xii) 3.390769% allocated to region 12.
(xiii) 0.749727% allocated to region 13.
(xiv) 1.749546% allocated to region 14.
(xv) 2.596578% allocated to region 15.
(xvi) 1.363928% allocated to region 16.
(xvii) 3.325101% allocated to region 17.
(xviii) 5.741368% allocated to region 18.
(xix) 1.827600% allocated to region 19.
(xx) 0.974842% allocated to region 20.
(B) Within each region and provided there are a sufficient
number of eligible grant applicants, no single grant recipient will
receive 100% of the funds allocated to a respective region.
(2) Of the funds allocated to a grant cycle, 25% shall
be allocated for targeted interventions. The council shall establish
parameters for the authorized uses of the targeted intervention component
of each grant cycle.
(A) The parameters may include:
(i) a limitation to one or more geographic areas based
on opioid incidence information; and
(ii) a limitation to one or more eligible strategies
based on opioid incidence information.
(B) The council shall rank the parameters relating
to geographic areas and eligible strategies in order of priority for
grant funding. For example, if the council limits targeted intervention
grants to, in order of priority, locations A, B, C, and D and to,
in order of priority, strategies X and Y, the council shall also specify
whether a grant application from location A for strategy Y is a higher
priority than a grant application from location B for strategy X.
(f) The council may, from time to time, review and
amend the grant issuance plan.
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