Page Health Research Facilities Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-115). Extend the present program of grants for construction of health research facilities for an additional three years; increase the authorization of appropriations to $280 million over the three year period; provide a three-year authorization for the Public Health Service to negotiate research contracts; and authorize three additional Assistant Secretaries in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Water Quality Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-234) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and creates within the Department a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration under the supervision of a Commissioner and an Assistant Secretary. It establishes a new four-year, $80 million program of grants and contract authority for the exploration of new and better methods of coping with the difficult pollution problem of overflow from combined storm and sanitary sewers, which is most difficult for the Nation's older cities. It doubles present dollar limitations on Federal grants for waste treatment works construction to provide more realistic financial help to the Nation's urban areas. The legislation provides financial incentive for the development of comprehensive metropolitan and regional approaches to water pollution problems. It increases from $100 million to $150 million the annual appropriation authorization for waste treatment works construction grants for 1966 and 1967. It authorizes the establishment of water quality standards for interstate waters in the absence of satisfactory State action with respect to the interstate waters within that State. Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-239) . . Provide a new program for the establishment of regional cooperative arrangements among medical schools, research institutions, and hospitals for research and training, including continuing education, and for related demonstrations of patient care to enable the medical profession and medical institutions to make available to their patients the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases; to improve generally the health, manpower, and facilities available to the Nation. The Amendments authorize a three-year program of Federal grants totaling $340 million over this period. The Clean Air Act Amendments and Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-272) Amends the Clean Air Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-206). It gives the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare authority to: control air pollution from new motor vehicles; take action to abate air pollution which originates in the United States and endangers the health or welfare of persons in neighboring countries; investigate and seek to prevent new sources of air pollution from coming into being; and, construct, staff, and equip facilities needed by the Department to carry out its increased responsibilities under the amended Clean Air Act. The Solid Waste Disposal provisions authorize the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Department of the Interior to invest $60 million and $32 million respectively over the next four years in research and development activities, demonstration projects, surveys, and technical and financial aid to State, regional, and local agencies to assist in the planning, development, and conduct of solid waste disposal programs--including construction of demonstration projects. Programs will include the development of methods for recovering potential resources from solid wastes. Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-291) .. 20 22 31 39 52 National Vocational Student Loan Insurance Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-287) Establishes a system of loan insurance to assist students desiring vocational training: by advancing Federal funds for reserve funds to State and nonprofit private organizations agreeing to set up loan insurance programs; by insuring commercial loans to eligible students who do not have other access; and by permitting the Commissioner of Education, in exceptional cases, to make direct loans to vocational students. Health Professions Educational Assistance Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-290) a program of basic and special improvement grants to improve the quality of the teaching program in schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, and podiatry; and a program of scholarships to aid needy students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Page 103 105 Assistance to Public Schools Affected by Major Disasters and Base Closings (P.L. 89-313) 113 The Higher Education Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-329) 114 Aimed at strengthening the educational resources of colleges and universities and providing financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education, the Higher Education Act of 1965 provides: 1. Grants to strengthen resources of colleges and universities to aid them in providing community service programs, such as continuing education, consultations, seminars and research, designed to assist in the solution of community problems. 2. Aid to college and university libraries through grants for books and supplies, training of personnel, and research and demonstration projects. 3. Grants to upgrade academic standards of developing colleges through faculty and student exchanges, visiting scholars, joint use of facilities, as well as a National Teaching fellowship program. 4. Student assistance programs, including scholarships, a subsidized low-interest insured loan program, expanding of the work-study program, and improvements in the NDEA loan program. 5. Improved teacher preparation programs: a National Teacher Corps, graduate fellowships to train elementary and secondary teachers, and grants to improve college undergraduate and graduate teacher training programs. 6. Funds for teaching equipment, including close circuit television. and for minor remodeling of facilities to improve undergraduate instruction. 7. Expansion of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, with a doubling of funds authorized for 1966 for construction grants. Page a 7 percent increase in OASDI cash benefits; liberalization of benefits; eligibility requirement for disability retirement test liberalization; payment of benefits to eligible children aged 18-21 who are attending school; payment of reduced benefits to widows at age 60; coverage of selfemployed physicians; coverage of tips as wages; liberalization of insured status requirements for aged persons 72 or over; increases in the contribution rate schedule, and in the benefit and contribution base to $6,600. Provides for a new program of grants for comprehensive health projects for children of school and pre-school age in areas with concentrations of low-income families; grants for training of professional personnel to work with crippled children, particularly the mentally retarded and those with physical handicaps; expansion of maternal and child health and crippled children's services, and child welfare services; follow-up allotments to the States for implementation of mental retardation planning; increased Federal participation in public assistance payments; Federal participation in payments to or on behalf of aged patients in institutions for tuberculosis or mental diseases; exemption of earnings for dependent children and permanently and totally disabled recipients. Correctional Rehabilitation Study Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-178) Provides for nationwide analysis and evaluation of the extent and methods for relieving the critical shortage of qualified correctional manpower. Authorizes grants to non-government agencies, organizations or commissions to help finance research projects concerned with personnel practices, methods of recruiting, effectiveness of deploying available personnel to attain optimum use of their skills, current and projected needs in the field of correctional rehabilitation, the availability and quality of educational and training resources for correctional staff. The Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-253). Extend, with substantially increased appropriations, the programs authorized by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Contain provisions: to make the community action concept more flexible; to authorize special programs for the chronically unemployed poor; to make poor farm workers eligible for work experience programs; to repeal the disclaimer affidavit provisions; and to limit the veto power of State governors; and to permit transfer of funds between programs authorized by the various Titles. Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-333) Improve and expand the present vocational rehabilitation legislation by making possible more Authorize a new five-year program of project grants for workshop improvement, including training projects (with allowances for trainees), operational improvement projects; authorize the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration to provide technical assistance to workshops; establish a National Policy and Performance Council on work shop improvement. Also creates a National Commission on Architectural Barriers to Rehabilitation of the Handicapped. Authorizes project grants to public and other nonprofit agencies for the expansion of vocational rehabilitation services, as well as a new two-year program of grants to States for comprehensive planning. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration is given specific authority for intramural research. States are given wider latitude in determining rehabilitation potential of individuals. |