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PUBLIC LAW 93-82-AUG. 2, 1973

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SEC. 2. Section 4(a)(2) of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (78 Stat. 879: 16 U.S.C. 4601-5), is amended ,

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to read as lollows: "Reasonable admission fees for a single visit at any designated area shall be established by the administering Secretary for persons who choose not to purchase the annual permit or who enter such an area by means other than by private, noncommercial vehicle. A 'single "single visit." visit' means that length of time a visitor remains within the exterior boundary of a designated fee area beginning from the day he first enters the area until he leaves, except that on the same day such admission fee is paid, the visitor may leave and reenter without the payment of an additional admission fee to the same area." Approved August 1, 1973. Public Law 93-82 AN ACT To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide improved and expanded medical and nursing home care to veterans; to provide hospital and medical care to certain dependents and survivors of veterans; to provide for improved s t r u c t u r a l safety of Veterans' Administration facilities; to improve recruitment and retention of career personnel in the Department of Medicine and Surgery; and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by 'the Senate and House of Representatives of the Veterans H e a l Viitted States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may ca^rrE^xpan"k>n^ t h be cited as the "Veterans Health Care Expansion Act of 1973''. Act of 1973. TITLE I—HOSPITAL, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE B E N E F I T S SEC. 101. (a) Subparagraph (C) of section 601(4) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 82^starV202'*^' " (C) private facilities for which the Administrator contracts Definitions! in order to provide (i) hospital care or medical services for persons suffering from service-connected disabilities or from disabilities for which such persons were discharged or released from the active military, naval, or air service; (ii) hospital care for M^omen veterans; or (iii) hospital care for veterans in a State, territory. Commonwealth, or possession of the United States not contiguous to the forty-eight contiguous States, except that the annually determined average hospital patient load per thousand veteran population hospitalized at Veterans' Administration expense in Government and private facilities in each such noncontiguous State may not exceed the average patient load per thousand veteran population hospitalized by the Veterans' Administration within the forty-eight contiguous States; but authority under this clause (iii) shall expire on December 31, 1978. (b) Section 601(5) of such title is amended to read as follows: ^^ usc'eoi*^" "(5) The term 'hospital care' includes— " (A)(i) medical services rendered in the course of the hospitalization of any veteran, and (ii) transportation and incidental expenses for any veteran who is in need of treatment for a serviceconnected disability or is unable to defray the expense of transportation; " (B) such mental health services, consultation, professional counseling, and training (including (i) necessary expenses for

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