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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 373-JULY 1, 1944 Appropriation au- thorized. State and local health services. Appropriation au- thorized. Demonstrations and training of per- sonnel. Determination of State allotments. Certification and payment. Method of expendi- ture. Localcontributions. provision of appropriate facilities for care and treatment and includ- ig the training of personnel for State and local health work, and to enable him to prevent and control the spread of tuberculosis in interstate traffic, and to meet the cost of pay, allowances, and travel- ing expenses of commissioned officers and other personnel of the Service detailed to assist in carrying out the purposes of this section with respect to tuberculosis, and to administer this section with respect to such disease, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, the sum of $10,000,000, and for each fiscal year thereafter a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this subsection. (c) To enable the Surgeon General to assist, through grants and as otherwise provided in this section, States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public health services, including grants for demonstrations and for the training of personnel for State and local health work, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum not to exceed $20,000,000. Of the sum appropriated for each fiscal year pursuant to this subsection there shall be avail- able an amount, not to eiceed $2,000,000, to enable the Surgeon Gen- eral to provide demonstrations and to train personnel for State and local health work and to meet the cost of pay, allowances, and travel- ing expenses of commissioned officers and other personnel of the Service detailed to assist States in carrying out the purposes of this subsection. (d) For each fiscal year, the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator, shall determine the total sum from the appro- priation under subsection (a), the total sum from the appropriation under subsection (b), and, within the limits specified in subsection (c), the total sum from the appropriation under that subsection which shall be available for allotment among the several States. He shall, in accordance with regulations, from time to time make allot- ments from such sums to the several States on the basis of (1) the population, (2) the size of the venereal-disease problem, the size of the tuberculosis problem, and the size of other special health prob- lems, respectively, and (3) the financial need of the respective States. Upon making such allotments the Surgeon General shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts thereof. (e) The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator, shall from time to time determine the amounts to be paid to each State from the allotments to such State, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts so determined, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by the amounts by which he finds that estimates of required expenditures with respect to any prior period were greater or less than the actual expenditures for such period. Upon receipt of such certification, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay in accordance with such certification. (f) The moneys so paid to any State shall be expended solely in carrying out the purposes specified in subsection (a), or subsection (b), or subsection (c) of this section, as the case may be, and in accordance with plans presented by the health authority of such State and approved by the Surgeon General. (g) Money so paid shall be paid upon the condition that there shall be spent in such State for the same general purpose from funds of such State and its political subdivisions an amount determined in accordance with regulations [58 STAT.

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