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PUBLIC LAW 102-375—SEPT. 30, 1992 106 STAT. 1253 "(3) ADVISORY BOARD.—The Commissioner shall establish Establishment. an advisory board to provide guidance to grant recipients regarding the neighborhood senior care programs. Not fewer than two-thirds of the members of the advisory board shall be residents in communities served by the grant recipients.

    • (4) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant under

this section, an entity shall submit an application to the Commissioner at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Commissioner may reasonably require. Each application shall— "(A) describe the activities in the program for which assistance is sought; "(B) describe the neighborhood in which volunteer services are to be provided under the program, and a plan for integration of volunteer services within the neighborhood; "(C)(i) provide assursinces that nurses, social workers, and community volunteers providing volunteer services and an outreach coordinator involved with the project live in the neighborhood; or "(iiXD reasons that it is not possible to provide such assurances; and "(11) assurances that nurses, social workers, community volunteers and the outreach coordinator will be assigned repeatedly to the particular neighborhood; and "(D) provide for an evaluation of the activities for which assistance is sought. "(c) TECHNICAL RESOURCE CENTER. —The Commissioner shall. Contracts. to the extent appropriations are available, enter into a contract with an applicant described in subsection (b)(2) to establish a technical resource center that will— "(1) assist the Commissioner in developing criteria for, and in awarding grants to communities to estabush, neighborhood senior care organizations that will implement neighborhood senior care programs under subsection (D); "(2) assist communities interested in establishing such a neighborhood senior care program; "(3) coordinate the neighborhood senior care programs; "(4) provide ongoing analysis of and collection of data on the neighborhood senior care programs and provide such data to the Commissioner; "(5) serve as a liaison to State agencies interested in establishing neighborhood senior care programs; and "(6) take any further actions as required by regulation by the Commissioner.**. SEC. 412. INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. Part B of title IV of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3034-3035g) (as amended by the preceding sections) is amended by adding at the end the following:

  • nSEC. 429C. INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 42 USC 3035k.

PROJECTS. "(a) GRANTS.—The Commissioner may— "(1) make grants to State cigencies, and, in consultation with State agencies, to area agencies on aging to support the