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 PUBLIC LAW 94-437—SEPT. 30, 1976 dental, optometrical, and other Indian health needs, the Secretary is authorized to expend, through the Service, over the seven-fiscal-year period beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act the amounts authorized to be appropriated by subsection (c). Funds appropriated pursuant to this section for each fiscal year shall not be used to offset or limit the appropriations required by the Service under other Federal laAVs to continue to serve the health needs of Indians during and subsequent to such seven-fiscal-year period, but shall be in addition to the level of appropriations provided to the Service under this Act and such other Federal laws in the preceding fiscal year plus an amount equal to the amount required to cover pay increases and employee benefits for personnel employed under this Act and such laws and increases in the costs of serving the health needs of Indians under this Act and such laws, which increases are caused by inflation. (b) The Secretary, acting through the Service, is authorized to employ persons to implement the provisions of this section during the seven-fiscal-year period in accordance with the schedule provided in subsection (c). Such positions authorized each fiscal year pursuant to this section shall not be considered as offsetting or limiting the personnel required by the Service to serve the health needs of Indians during and subsequent to such seven-fiscal-year period but shall be in addition to the positions authorized in the previous fiscal year. (c) The following amounts and positions are authorized, in accordance with the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), for the specific purposes noted: (1) Patient care (direct and indirect): sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $8,500,000 and two hundred and twenty-five positions for fiscal year 1979, and $16,200,000 and three hundred positions for fiscal year 1980. (2) Field health, excluding dental care (direct and indirect): sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $3,350,000 and eighty-five positions for fiscal year 1979, and $5,550,000 and one hundred and thirteen positions for fiscal year 1980. (3) Dental care (direct and indirect): sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $1,500,000 and eighty positions for fiscal year 1979, and $1,500,000 and fifty positions for fiscal year 1980. (4) Mental health: (A) Community mental health services: sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $1,300,000 and thirty positions for fiscal year 1979,'and $2,000,000 and thirty positions for fiscal year 1980. (B) Inpatient mental health services: sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $400,000 and fifteen positions for fiscal year 1979, and ^600,000 and fifteen positions for fiscal year 1980. (C) Model dormitory mental health services: sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $1,250,000 and fifty positions for fiscal year 1979, and $1,875,000 and fifty positions for fiscal year 1980. (D) Therapeutic and residential treatment centers: sums and positions as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $300,000 and ten positions for fiscal year 1979, and $400,000 and five positions for fiscal year 1980. (E) Training of traditional Indian practitioners in mental health: sums as provided in subsection (e) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $200,000 for fiscal year 1980.

90 STAT. 1405

Employment during sevenfiscal-year period.

Appropriation authorization.

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