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Method of payment.

V a c c i n e s to private physicians.

Reduction of grant.

42 USC 701731; 29 USC 4Sb.

PUBLIC LAW 87-868-OCT. 23, 1%2

[76 STAT.

cough, and tetanus over the period of the p r o - a m of all, or practically all, susceptible persons in a community, particularly children who are under the age of five years, and which includes plans and measures looking toward the strengthening of ongoing community programs for the immunization against such diseases of infants and for maintenance of immunity in the remainder of the population. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any State or any political subdivision or instrumentality of a State to have an intensive community vaccination program which would require any person who objects to immunization to be immunized or to have any child or ward of his immunized. "(c)(1) Payments under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, in such installments, and on such terms and conditions as the Surgeon General finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, and the Surgeon General may, if the applicant State or other political subdivision or instrumentality so requests, purchase and furnish vaccines in lieu of making money grants for the purchase thereof. "(2) Each applicant under this section for a money grant for the purchase of vaccines, or for a grant of vaccines in lieu of a money grant, for use in connection with an intensive community vaccination program shall, at the time it files its application with the Surgeon General, provide the Surgeon General with assurances satisfactory to him that it will, if it receives such a grant, furnish any physician, who practices in the area in which such program is to be carried out and makes application therefor to it, with such amounts of vaccines as are reasonably necessary in order to permit such physician during the period of such program to immunize his patients who are in the group for whose immunization such grant of money or vaccines is made. "(3) Each applicant for a grant under this section for use in connection with an intensive community vaccination program shall, at the time it files its application for such grant with the Surgeon General, provide the Surgeon General with assurances satisfactory to him that it will, if it receives such grant, furnish such other services and materials as may be necessary to carry out such program. " (d) The Surgeon General, at the request of a State or other public agency, may reduce the grant to such agency under this section by the amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee of the Public Health Service to such agency when such detail is made for the convenience of and at the request of such agency and for the purpose of carrying out a function for which a grant is made under this section. The amount by which such grant is so reduced shall be available for payment of such costs by the Surgeon General, but shall, for purposes of subsection (c), be deemed to have been paid to such agency. "(e) Nothing in this section shall limit or otherwise restrict the use of funds which are granted to a State or to a political subdivision of a State under title V of the Social Security Act, other provisions of this Act, or other Federal law and which are available for the purchase of vaccine or for organizing, promoting, conducting, or participating in immunization programs, from being used for such purposes in connection with programs assisted through grants under this section." Approved October 23, 1962.

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