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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.45.09.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="45" chapter_num="09" heading="Selection Process.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Letters of Request — Commission Review. The Commission may direct staff to review a letter of request and report to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Committee on Capital and Operational Funding (Committee);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The Commission; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Both.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Temporary emergency funding requests shall be reviewed on a timely basis as follows:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Temporary emergency funding requests submitted from the 1st through 15th of any month shall be preliminarily reviewed by staff prior to the end of the month and forwarded to the Commission, the Committee, or both, within 10 days; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Temporary emergency funding requests submitted from the 16th through the last day of the month shall be preliminarily reviewed by staff prior to the 15th of the succeeding month and forwarded to the Commission, the Committee, or both, within 10 days.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Staff Determinations.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Staff shall review a request for emergency funding to preliminarily ascertain that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Sufficient information has been provided to determine a community health resource's status; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Sufficient information has been provided concerning the threatened service or program for which funding is being requested.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Staff shall alert the applicant to perceived preliminary deficiencies, if any, in the submission and request supplementation as necessary.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Upon receipt of the information required as preliminarily determined by staff, the letter of request shall be forwarded to the Committee, the Commission, or both, at the discretion of the Commission chairperson.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>