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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1310. Cooperative research or demonstration projects
(a)(1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, $5,000,000 and for each fiscal
year thereafter such sums as the Congress may determine for (A)
making grants to States and public and other organizations and
agencies for paying part of the cost of research or demonstration
projects such as those relating to the prevention and reduction of
dependency, or which will aid in effecting coordination of planning
between private and public welfare agencies or which will help
improve the administration and effectiveness of programs carried on
or assisted under this chapter and programs related thereto, and
(B) making contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements
with States and public and other organizations and agencies for the
conduct of research or demonstration projects relating to such
matters.
(2) No contract or jointly financed cooperative arrangement shall
be entered into, and no grant shall be made, under paragraph (1),
until the Secretary (or the Commissioner, with respect to any
jointly financed cooperative agreement or grant concerning
subchapters II or XVI of this chapter) obtains the advice and
recommendations of specialists who are competent to evaluate the
proposed projects as to soundness of their design, the
possibilities of securing productive results, the adequacy of
resources to conduct the proposed research or demonstrations, and
their relationship to other similar research or demonstrations
already completed or in process.
(3) Grants and payments under contracts or cooperative
arrangements under paragraph (1) may be made either in advance or
by way of reimbursement, as may be determined by the Secretary (or
the Commissioner, with respect to any jointly financed cooperative
agreement or grant concerning subchapter II or XVI of this
chapter); and shall be made in such installments and on such
conditions as the Secretary (or the Commissioner, as applicable)
finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this subsection.
(b)(1) The Commissioner is authorized to waive any of the
requirements, conditions, or limitations of subchapter XVI of this
chapter (or to waive them only for specified purposes, or to impose
additional requirements, conditions, or limitations) to such extent
and for such period as the Commissioner finds necessary to carry
out one or more experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects
which, in the Commissioner's judgment, are likely to assist in
promoting the objectives or facilitate the administration of such
subchapter. Any costs for benefits under or administration of any
such project (including planning for the project and the review and
evaluation of the project and its results), in excess of those that
would have been incurred without regard to the project, shall be
met by the Commissioner from amounts available to the Commissioner
for this purpose from appropriations made to carry out such
subchapter. The costs of any such project which is carried out in
coordination with one or more related projects under other
subchapters of this chapter shall be allocated among the
appropriations available for such projects and any Trust Funds
involved, in a manner determined by the Commissioner with respect
to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance programs under
subchapter II of this chapter and the supplemental security income
program under subchapter XVI of this chapter, and by the Secretary
with respect to other subchapters of this chapter, taking into
consideration the programs (or types of benefit) to which the
project (or part of a project) is most closely related or which the
project (or part of a project) is intended to benefit. If, in order
to carry out a project under this subsection, the Commissioner
requests a State to make supplementary payments (or the
Commissioner makes them pursuant to an agreement under section
1382e of this title) to individuals who are not eligible therefor,
or in amounts or under circumstances in which the State does not
make such payments, the Commissioner shall reimburse such State for
the non-Federal share of such payments from amounts appropriated to
carry out subchapter XVI of this chapter. If, in order to carry out
a project under this subsection, the Secretary requests a State to
provide medical assistance under its plan approved under subchapter
XIX of this chapter to individuals who are not eligible therefor,
or in amounts or under circumstances in which the State does not
provide such medical assistance, the Secretary shall reimburse such
State for the non-Federal share of such assistance from amounts
appropriated to carry out subchapter XVI of this chapter, which
shall be provided by the Commissioner to the Secretary for this
purpose.
(2) With respect to the participation of recipients of
supplemental security income benefits in experimental, pilot, or
demonstration projects under this subsection -
(A) the Commissioner is not authorized to carry out any project
that would result in a substantial reduction in any individual's
total income and resources as a result of his or her
participation in the project;
(B) the Commissioner may not require any individual to
participate in a project; and the Commissioner shall assure (i)
that the voluntary participation of individuals in any project is
obtained through informed written consent which satisfies the
requirements for informed consent established by the Commissioner
for use in any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project in
which human subjects are at risk, and (ii) that any individual's
voluntary agreement to participate in any project may be revoked
by such individual at any time;
(C) the Commissioner shall, to the extent feasible and
appropriate, include recipients who are under age 18 as well as
adult recipients; and
(D) the Commissioner shall include in the projects carried out
under this section such experimental, pilot, or demonstration
projects as may be necessary to ascertain the feasibility of
treating alcoholics and drug addicts to prevent the onset of
irreversible medical conditions which may result in permanent
disability, including programs in residential care treatment
centers.
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