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PUBLIC LAW 87-868-OCT. 23, 1962

SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and legislative provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1963: Provided, That the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of Buildings and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1961, shall be increased from 6 to 7 per centum of appropriations for construction projects. SEC. 16. The salary of the Controller for the Department of Public Welfare shall be at the rate of Grade GS-16 and the Commissioners are authorized to appoint supervisors of investigators for the Department of Public Welfare at Grade GS-11 and investigators at Grade GS-9. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1963". Approved October 23, 1962.

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74 Stat. 23.

Short title.

Public Law 87-868 AN ACT To assist States and communities to carry out intensive vaccination programs designed to protect their populations, particularly all preschool children, against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bejyresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962". SEC. 2. Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding after section 316 the following new section: u, GRANTS

FOR INTENSIVE VACCINATION PROGRAMS

"SEC. 317. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated $14,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and $11,000,000 each for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and June 30, 1965, to enable the Surgeon General to make grants to States and, with the approval of the State health authority, to political subdivisions or instrumentalities of the States under this section. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this section for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1963, and June 30, 1964, shall be availrble for making such grants during the fiscal year for which appropriated and the succeeding fiscal year. Such grants may be used to pay that portion of the cost of intensive community vaccination programs against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus which is reasonably attributable to (1) purchase of vaccines needed to protect children under the age of five years and such additional groups of children as may be described in regulations of the Surgeon General upon his finding that they are not normally served by school vaccination programs and (2) salaries and related expenses of additional State and local health personnel needed for planning, organizational, and promotional activities in connection with such programs, including studies to determine the immunization needs of communities and the means of best meeting such needs, and personnel and related expenses needed to maintain additional epidemiologic and laboratory surveillance occasioned by such programs. " (b) For purposes of this section an 'intensive community vaccination program' means a program of limited duration which is so designed and conducted as to achieve, with the cooperation of practicing physicians, official health agencies, voluntary organizations, and volunteers, the immunization against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping

October 23, 1962 [H. R. 10541]

Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962. 58 Stat. 693; 75 Stat. 824. 42 USC 243247a.

"Intensive community vaccination program."

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