---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15062"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15062"
heading: "Grant awards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15062"
units:
  - "Chapter 144 — Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities"
  - "Part D — National Network of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service"
---

# §15062. Grant awards

- (a) **Existing Centers—**
  - (1) **In general—** In awarding and distributing grant funds under [section 15061(a)](/usc/42/15061.md?p=a)of this title for a fiscal year, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-4), subject to the availability of appropriations and the condition specified in [subsection (d)](#d), shall award and distribute grant funds in equal amounts of $500,000 (adjusted in accordance with [subsection (b)](#b)), to each Center that existed during the preceding fiscal year and that meets the requirements of this part, prior to making grants under subsection [(c)](#c) or [(d)](#d).
  - (2) **Reduction of award—** Notwithstanding [paragraph (1)](#a-1), if the aggregate of the funds to be awarded to the Centers pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#a-1) for any fiscal year exceeds the total amount appropriated under [section 15066 of this title](/usc/42/15066.md) for such fiscal year, the amount to be awarded to each Center for such fiscal year shall be proportionately reduced.
- (b) **Adjustments—** Subject to the availability of appropriations, for any fiscal year following a year in which each Center described in [subsection (a)](#a) received a grant award of not less than $500,000 under [subsection (a)](#a) (adjusted in accordance with this subsection), the [Secretary](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-4) shall adjust the awards to take into account the most recent percentage change in the Consumer Price Index published by the [Secretary](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-4) of Labor under [section 720(c)(1) of title 29](/usc/29/720.md?p=c-1) (if the percentage change indicates an increase), prior to making grants under subsection [(c)](#c) or [(d)](#d).
- (c) **National training initiatives on critical and emerging needs—** Subject to the availability of appropriations, for any fiscal year in which each Center described in [subsection (a)](#a) receives a grant award of not less than $500,000, under [subsection (a)](#a) (adjusted in accordance with [subsection (b)](#b)), after making the grant awards, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-4) shall make grants under [section 15061(b) of this title](/usc/42/15061.md?p=b) to Centers to pay for the Federal share of the cost of training initiatives related to the unmet needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their [families](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-2-A), as described in [section 15063(b) of this title](/usc/42/15063.md?p=b).
- (d) **Additional grants—** For any fiscal year in which each Center described in [subsection (a)](#a) receives a grant award of not less than $500,000 under [subsection (a)](#a) (adjusted in accordance with [subsection (b)](#b)), after making the grant awards, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-4) may make grants under [section 15061(a) of this title](/usc/42/15061.md?p=a) for activities described in [section 15063(a) of this title](/usc/42/15063.md?p=a) to additional Centers, or additional grants to Centers, for [States](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-5) or populations that are unserved or underserved by Centers due to such factors as—
  - (1) population;
  - (2) a high concentration of rural or urban areas; or
  - (3) a high concentration of unserved or underserved populations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–402, title I, § 152, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1719.)