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PUBLIC LAW 92.449-SEPT. 30, 1972

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Public Law 92-449 September 30, 1972 [S.3442]

AN ACT 'J'o amend the Public Health Service Act to extend nud revise the program of assistance under that Act for the r'ontrol and prevention of comniunioahle diseases.

Be it enacted by the Senate aitd Home of ReprexentdtireH of the D ^I'^T^^lniT^oi ^^nited States of America, in Congress assembled. Amendments Act SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "roniniunicable Disease °f 1972. Control Amendments Act of 1972"'. TITLE I—COMMTTNICABLE D I S E A S E PROGRAMS 84 Stat. 9 8 8. 42 USC 247b.

SEC. 101. Section 817 of the Public Health Service Act (42 T \ S. ( \ 847b) is amended to read as follows: GRANTS

Application requirements.

FOR

VACCINATION DISEASE

PROGRAMS A N D OTHER CONTROL PR(X1RAMS

C M, M I N I CAW.E

317. (a) The Secretary may make prants to States and. in consultation with the State health authority, to agencies and political subdivisions of States to assist in meeting the costs of communicable disease control programs. I n making a grant under this section, the Secretary shall give consideration to (1) the relative extent, in the area served by the applicant for the grant, of the problems which relate to one or more of the communicable diseases referred to in subsection (h)(1), and (2) the design of the applicant's communicable disease program to determine its effectiveness. "(b)(1) No grant may be made under this section unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. Except as provided in paragraph (2), such application shall be in such form, submitted in such manner, and contain such information, as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. "(2) An application for a grant for a fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, shall— " (A) set forth with particularity the objectives (and their priorities, as determined in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe) of the applicant for each of the programs he proposes to conduct with assistance from a grant under this section; ' ' (B) contain assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that, in the fiscal year for which a grant under this section is applied for. the applicant will conduct such programs as may be necessary to develop an awareness in those persons in the area served by the applicant who are most susceptible to the diseases referred to in subsection (h)(1) of the importance of immunization against such diseases, to encourage such persons to seek appropriate immunization, and to facilitate access by such persons to immunization services; and " (C) provide for the reporting to the Secretary of such information as he may require concerning (i) the problems, in the area served by the applicant, which relate to any communicable disease referred to in subsection (h)(1), and (ii) the communicable disease control programs of the applicant. •' (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any State or any agency or political subdivision of a State to have a communicable disease control program which would require any peison, AVIIO objects to any treatment provided under such a program, to be treated ''SEC.

Application submission.

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