[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR50.403]

[Page 149]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 50--POLICIES OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart D--Public Health Service Grant Appeals Procedure
 
Sec. 50.403  What is the policy basis for these procedures?

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services has established a 
Departmental Appeals Board for the purpose of providing a fair and 
flexible process for the appeal of written final decisions involving 
certain grant and cooperative agreement programs administered by 
constituent agencies of the Department. The regulatory provision which 
establishes the circumstances under which the Board will accept an 
appeal (45 CFR 16.3) provides, among other things, that the appellant 
must have exhausted any preliminary appeal process required by 
regulation before a formal appeal to the Departmental Board will be 
allowed. This subpart provides such an informal preliminary procedure 
for resolution of disputes in order to preclude submission of cases to 
the Departmental Appeals Board before an agency identified in 
Sec. 50.402 has had an opportunity to review decisions of its officials 
and to settle disputes with grantees.

[54 FR 34770, Aug. 22, 1989, as amended at 63 FR 66062, Dec. 1, 1998]