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 252 42 USC 246.

PUBLIC LAW 170-JULY 31, 1953

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Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314(b) of the Act, $6,000,000. Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes, not other42 USC 246. Avise specifically provided for, of section 314(c) of the Act; to provide 42 USC 243. consultative services to States pursuant to section 311 of the Act; to 42 USC 241. make field investigations and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 of the Act; and to provide for collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics; $13,250,000, of which not more than $2,400,000 shall be available for personal services. Communicable diseases: To carry ovit, except as otherwise provided 264^ use 241,243, ^^^^ those provisions of sections 301, 311, and 361 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppression of communicable and preventable diseases, and the interstate transmission and spread thereof, including the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable buildings; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; $5,000,000, of which not less than $400,000 shall be used for studies, prevention, and control activities on poliomyelitis. Engineering, sanitation, and industrial hygiene: For expenses, not otherwise provided, necessary to carry oi^t those provisions of sections 246! 2^:^'*^'^'*^' ^^^1' ^'^^^ ''^^^ (^)' ^^^^ "^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ relating to sanitation and other aspects of environmental health, including enforcement of applicable quarantine laws and interstate quarantine regulations, and for carrying out the purposes of the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 62 Stat. 1155. 466-466 (j)); $3,162,500. Disease and sanitation investigations and control. Territory of Alaska: To enable the Surgeon General to conduct, in the Service, and to cooperate with and assist the Territory of Alaska in the conduct of, activities necessary in the investigation, prevention, treatment, and control of diseases, and the establishment and maintenance of health and sanitation services pursuant to and for the purposes specified in 24^6^ 2'M^ I'eV.^'*^' sections 301, 311, 314 (without regard to the provisions of subsections (d), (f), (h), and (j) and the limitations set forth in subsection (c) of such section), 361 and 363 of the Act, including the hire, operation, and maintenance of aircraft, and the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable buildings, $1,082,000. Grants for hospital construction: For payments for hospital con4°2%°s'c^°2''9id- struction under part C, title VI, of the Act, as amended, to remain 29ih. available until expended, $65,000,000: Provided, That allotments under such part C to the several States for the current fiscal year shall be made on the basis of an amount equal to the appropriation granted herein. Grants for hospital construction (liquidation of contract authorization): For payment of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted under this head, $19,700,000. Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services: For salaries 42 USC*29i29*in ^^^ expeuses incident to carrying out title VI of the Act, as amended, $875,000. Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the functions of the 60 Stat. 903. Public Health Service under the Act of August 8, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 150), 25? 2^3^ 255-25 7' ^ud under sectious 321,322,324,326,331,332,341,343,344, 502,504, and 259', 26o',22o,222', 710 of the Public Health Service Act, and Executive Order 9079 of 7630^°*^' ^^ ^^^ February 26, 1942, including purchase and exchange of farm products r- ?, S ^^.'r, J ^ 1^ and livestock; conducting research on technical nursing standards and 1101. furnishing consultative nursing services; and purchase oi firearms and ammunition; $33,100,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be exclusively available for payments to the Territory of Hawaii for care and treatment of persons afflicted with leprosy: Provided, That when the Public Health Service establishes or operates a health service program for

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