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PUBLIC LAW 89-749-NOV. 3, 1966

[80 STAT.

"Project Grants for Health Services Development "(e) There are authorized to be appropriated $62,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, for grants to any public or nonprofit private agency, institution, or organization to cover part of the cost of (1) providing services to meet health needs of limited geographic scope or of specialized regional or national significance, (2) stimulating and supporting for an initial period new programs of health services, or (3) undertaking studies, demonstrations, or training designed to develop new methods or improve existing methods of providing health services. Such grants may be made pursuant to clause (1) or (2) of the preceding sentence with respect to projects involving the furnishing of public health services only if such services are provided in accordance with such plans as have been developed pursuant to subsection (a). "Interchange of Personnel With States "state."

68 Stat. 7 36. 5 USC 209 1 note.

" (f)(1) For the purposes of this subsection, the term 'State' means a State or a political subdivision of a State, or any agency of either of the foregoing engaged in any activities related to health or designated or established pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a); the term 'Secretary' means (except when used in paragraph (3)(D)) the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the term 'Department' means the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(2) The Secretary is authorized, through agreements or otherwise, to arrange for assignment of officers and employees of States to the Department and assignment to States of officers and employees in the Department engaged in work related to health, for work which the Secretary determines will aid the Department in more effective discharge of its responsibilities in the field of health as authorized by law, including cooperation with States and the provision of technical or other assistance. The period of assignment of any officer or employee under an arrangement shall not exceed two years. "(3)(A) Officers and employees in the Department assigned to any State pursuant to this suh^ection shall be considered, during such assignment, to be (i) on detail to a regular work assignment in the Department, or (ii) on leave without pay from their positions in the Department. ' (B) Persons considered to be so detailed shall remain as officers or employees, as the case may be, in the Department for all purposes, except that the supervision of their duties during the period of detail may be governed by agreement between the Department and the State involved. " (C) I n the case of persons so assigned and on leave without pay— "(i) if the rate of compensation (including allowances) for their employment by the State is less than the rate of compensation (including allowances) they would be receiving had they continued in their regular assignment in the Department, they may receive supplemental salary payments from the Department in the amount considered by the Secretary to be justified, but not at a rate in excess of the difference between the State rate and the Department rate; and ''(ii) they may be granted annual leave and sick leave to the extent authorized by law, but only in circumstances considered by the Secretary to justify approval of such leave. Such officers and employees on leave without pay shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be entitled— "(iii) to continuation of their insurance under the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, and coverage

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