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 99 STAT. 1256 25 USC 450 note. 25 USC 1601 note.

PUBLIC LAW 99-190—DEC. 19, 1985

facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, $46,947,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Rosebud, South Dakota, hospital shall be designed and constructed with a capacity of 35 beds. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

42 USC 1395f, 1395n, 1395qq and note, 1396j and note, 1396d. 25 USC 1681.

Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Service, available for salaries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the rate for GS-18, and for uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), and for expenses of attendance at meetings which are concerned with the functions or activities for which the appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or management of those functions or activities: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this Act to the Indian Health Service shall be available for the initial lease of permanent structures without advance provision therefor in appropriations Acts: Provided further. That non-Indian patients may be extended health care at all Indian Health Service facilities, if such care can be extended without impairing the ability of the Indian Health Service to fulfill its responsibility to provide health care to Indians served by such facilities and subject to such reasonable charges as the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prescribe, the proceeds of which shall be deposited in the fund established by sections 401 and 402 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further. That funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except those used for administrative and program direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further. That with the exception of service units which currently have a billing policy, the Indian Health Service shall not initiate any further action to bill Indians in order to collect from third-party payers nor to charge those Indians who may have the economic means to pay unless and until such time as Congress has agreed upon a specific policy to do so and has directed the Indian Health Service to implement such a policy: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, to satisfy the outstanding judgment against the Seattle Indian Health Board resulting from termination of its occupancy of the Kobe Park building in Seattle, Washington, $180,000 shall be provided from the unobligated balance available to the Indian Health Service from prior years' appropriations. Such payment shall be made only if the owners of the Kobe Park Building Company accept the sum named as full satisfaction for current or future claims against the Seattle Indian Health Board and the individual members of the Board.

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