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Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made conforming technical revisions under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 78.092 to add references to AS 44.30.020 and AS 47.06.010. 7 AAC 78.093. Commissioner’s decision on grant awards. (a) The commissioner will make the final decision on the award of a grant. In making a final grant award decision, the commissioner will consider

(1) recommendations from the department;

(2) recommendations from any proposal evaluation committee appointed under 7 AAC 78.092;

(3) other advisory recommendations; and

(4) the criteria established in 7 AAC 78.100. (b) The commissioner will decide

(1) to approve the grant award for the amount requested;

(2) to approve the grant award for an amount different from the amount requested or with modifications;

(3) to approve the grant award with special conditions or modifications; or

(4) not to approve the grant award. (c) An award approved under (b)(2) or (3) of this section is contingent upon a negotiated agreement for necessary revisions in the applicant’s proposed budget and proposed scope of services. (d) Subject to (c) of this section, the commissioner will make the final decision on a grant proposal no later than 15 days after an appropriation for the grant is enacted into law and is effective. This timing does not apply if

(1) the statutory authority for a grant program provides for a different timeline for the award of grants;

(2) the commissioner receives the recommendations for grant awards after the relevant appropriation for the state fiscal year has been enacted into law;

(3) the request for proposals with respect to a particular grant specified a different