Simplification of Grant Appeals Process

Pursuant to 42 CFR part 50, subpart D, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (formerly, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration) have provided an informal level of appeal on those grant related disputes subject to the departmental appeal procedures codified at 45 CFR part 16.\1\ The Department of Health and Human Services is amending its regulations to remove IHSA and ADAMHA (now SAMHSA) from the list of agencies to which those informal appeal procedures apply and thus permit aggrieved grantees direct access to the Departmental Appeals Board and that Board's original jurisdiction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------