---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1393"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1393"
heading: "Applications; single State agency designation; essential planning services; plans for expenditure; final activities report and other necessary reports; records; accounting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1393"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Grants for Planning Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation"
---

# §1393. Applications; single State agency designation; essential planning services; plans for expenditure; final activities report and other necessary reports; records; accounting


In order to be eligible for a [grant](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) under [section 1392 of this title](/usc/42/1392.md), a [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) must submit an application therefor which—

- (1) designates or establishes a single [State agency](/usc/42/629a.md?p=a-3), which may be an interdepartmental [agency](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=1), as the sole [agency](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=1) for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter;
- (2) indicates the manner in which provision will be made to assure full consideration of all aspects of services essential to planning for comprehensive [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) and community action to combat mental retardation, [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) services in the fields of education, employment, rehabilitation, welfare, health, and the law, and services provided through community programs for and institutions for the mentally retarded;
- (3) sets forth its plans for expenditure of such [grant](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10), which plans provide reasonable assurance of carrying out the purposes of this subchapter;
- (4) provides for submission of a final report of the activities of the [State agency](/usc/42/629a.md?p=a-3) in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter, and for submission of such other reports, in such form and containing such information, as the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) may from time to time find necessary for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter and for keeping such records and affording such access thereto as he may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; and
- (5) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for funds paid to the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVII, § 1703, as added Pub. L. 88–156, § 5, Oct. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 275.)