Section 635.30 Definitions

Section 635

Section 635.30  Definitions

"Agreement"

means the written contract between the Department and delegate agency prepared

by the Department and authorized by both parties.

"Delegate

agency" means a public or private not-for-profit entity which provides

family planning services under a negotiated written agreement with the

Department.

"Family"

means a social unit composed of one person, or two or more persons living

together, as a household.

"Family

planning services" means those medical, social, educational and referral

services related to the avoidance, achievement, timing or spacing of pregnancy.

"Federal

and State Regulations" governing Family Planning Services means printed

regulations found in the following sources:  42 CFR Subpart B, 50.201-50.209;

42 CFR, Subpart C, 50.301-50.310; 45 CFR 16, 74, 80, 84 and 90.

"Low

income family" means a family whose total annual income does not exceed

100 percent of the most recent DHHS Income Poverty Guidelines 54 FR 31,

February 16, 1989.

"Marginal

income family" means a family whose total annual income is above 100% and

does not exceed 250% of the most recent DHHS Income Poverty Guidelines.

"Program

Income" means gross income earned by a delegate agency and budgeted in the

award period for activities described in the project and generated as a result

of that delegate agency having received a grant from the Department.  Such

income shall include fees for services performed and proceeds from the usage or

rental of equipment funded by the grant.  Revenues received from taxes, levies,

and fines are not considered program income.  However, the receipt and

expenditure of such revenues shall be recorded as part of the grant or subgrant

project budget when such revenues are specifically earmarked for the project's

Family Planning Program.

"Project

Funds" means all sources of money related to the family planning services

program and identified in the agency's family planning budget

fines are not considered program income.  However, the receipt and

expenditure of such revenues shall be recorded as part of the grant or subgrant

project budget when such revenues are specifically earmarked for the project's

Family Planning Program.

"Project

Funds" means all sources of money related to the family planning services

program and identified in the agency's family planning budget.

"Satisfactory

Performance" means having met or exceeded the program objectives of

serving a target population of which 85 percent of the unduplicated users are

at or below 150 percent of the Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, as set by the

state agency in their agreements with delegate agencies and meeting both the

clinical and administrative indicators of the Bureau of Community Health

Services (BCHS) of Common Reporting Requirements (BCRR).

"Underserved

area" means geographic areas (county or Chicago Community Area) where less

than 80 percent of the estimated number of women in need of family planning

services are being served.