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of Health or, where appropriate, within the National Institute of Mental Health.124

USE OF IMMIGRATION STATION HOSPITALS

SEC. 502. The Immigration and Naturalization Service may, by agreement of the heads of the departments concerned, permit the Public Health Service to use hos pitals at immigration stations for the care of Public Health Service patients. The Surgeon General shall reimburse the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the actual cost of furnishing fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, which reimbursement shall be covered into the proper Immigration and Naturalization Service appropriation, or such costs may be paid from working funds established as provided by law, but no charge shall be made for the expense of physical upkeep of the hospitals. The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall reimburse the Surgeon General for the care and treatment of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service unless such persons are entitled to care and treatment under section 322(a).

MONEY COLLECTED FOR CARE OF PATIENTS

SEC. 503. Money collected as provided by law for expenses incurred in the care and treatment of foreign seamen, and money received for the care and treatment of pay patients, including any amounts received from any executive department on account of care and treatment of pay patients, shall be covered into the appropriation from which the expenses of such care and treatment were paid.

CARE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE PATIENTS AT SAINT ELIZA

BETHS HOSPITAL

SEC. 504. Insane patients entitled to treatment by the Service shall be admitted, upon order of the Secretary, into Saint Elizabeths Hospital or, upon order of the Surgeon General, into any hospital, institution, or station of the Service especially equipped for the accommodation of such patients and shall be cared for and treated therein until cured or until ordered removed by the officer authorizing such admittance. Funds available for the operation of such hospitals, institutions, and stations of the Service shall also be available for expenditure to meet court costs and other expenses of the Service incident to proceedings for the commitment, to Saint Elizabeths

124 Subsec. (e) was amended by sec. 10 of the National Mental Health Act (P.L. 487, 79th Congress) and sec. 6(b) of the National Heart Act (P.L. 655, 80th Congress).

Hospital or to any hospital, institution, or station of the Service, of any mentally incompetent person entitled to treatment by the Service.125

SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS

SEC. 505. The Secretary may consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine any claim which shall accrue, on account of damages occasioned by collisions or incident to the operation of vessels of the Service, and for which damages such vessels are found by him to be responsible. To be considered for settlement under this section, claims must be presented to the Secretary within one year of their accrual. The amount ascertained and determined to be due any claimant, not exceeding $3,000 in any one case, shall be certified to Congress as a legal claim for payment out of appropriations that may be made therefor by Congress, together with a brief statement of the character of each claim, the amount claimed, and the amount allowed. Acceptance by any claimant of the amount determined to be due under this section shall be deemed to be in full and final settlement of such claim against the Government of the United States.

TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS OF OFFICERS

SEC. 506. Appropriations available for traveling expenses of the Service shall be available for meeting the cost of preparation for burial and of transportation to the place of burial of remains of commissioned officers, and of personnel specified in regulations, who die in line of duty. Appropriations available for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall also be available for the payment of such expenses relating to the recovery, care, and disposition of the remains of personnel or their dependents as may be authorized under other provisions of law 126

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TRANSFER OF FUNDS

SEC. 508. For the purpose of any reorganization under section 202, the Secretary, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, is authorized to make such transfers of funds between appropriations as may be necessary for the continuance of transferred func tions.

125 The last sentence of sec. 504 was added by sec. 6 of P.L. 781, 80th Congress.,

12 The last sentence of sec. 506 was added by sec. 14(b) of the Act of July 15, 1954, 68 Stat. 481.

17 Sec. 507 repealed by sec. 5 of P.L. 147, 84th Congress.

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AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 509. Appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act shall be available for expenditure for personal services and rent at the seat of Government; books of reference, periodicals, and exhibits; printing and binding; transporting in Government-owned automotive equipment, to and from school, children of personnel who have quarters for themselves and their families at stations determined by the Surgeon General to be isolated stations; expenses incurred in pursuing, identifying, and returning prisoners who escape from any hospital, institution, or station of the Service or from the custody of any officer or employee of the Service, including rewards for the capture of such prisoners; furnishing, repairing, and cleaning such wearing apparel as may be prescribed by the Surgeon General for use by employees in the performance of their official duties; reimbursing officers and employees, subject to regulations of the Secretary, for the cost of repairing or replacing their personal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while such officers or employees are engaged in the performance of their official duties; and maintenance of buildings of the National Institutes of Health.128

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UNAUTHORIZED WEARING OF UNIFORMS

SEC. 510. Except as may be authorized by regulations of the President, the insignia and uniform of commissioned officers of the Service, or any distinctive part of such insignia or uniform, or any insignia or uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part thereof, shall not be worn, after the promulgation of such regulations, by any person other than a commissioned officer of the Service. 129

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ANNUAL REPORT

SEC. 511. The Surgeon General shall transmit to the Secretary, for submission to the Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a full report of the administration of the functions of the Service under this Act, including a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements.

128 Sec. 509 was amended by sec. 7 of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. Note that the term "National Institute of Health" did not appear in this section on the effective date of sec. 6(b) of the National Heart Act (P.L. 655, 80th Congress) which directed that the term, wherever appearing in the Public Health Service Act, be changed to "National Institutes of Health.'

129 Amended by the Act of June 25, 1948, 62 Stat. 859.

TITLE VI-ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MODERNIZATION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES 130

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

SEC. 600. The purpose of this title is

(a) to assist the several States in the carrying out of their programs for the construction and modernization of such public or other nonprofit community hospitals and other medical facilities as may be necessary, in conjunction with existing facilities, to furnish adequate hospital, clinic, or similar services to all their people;

(b) to stimulate the development of new or improved types of physical facilities for medical, diagnostic, preventive, treatment, or rehabilitative services; and

(c) to promote research, experiments, and demonstrations relating to the effective development and utilization of hospital, clinic, or similar services, facilities, and resources, and to promote the coordination of such research, experiments, and demonstrations and the useful application of their results.

PART A-GRANTS AND LOANS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MODERNIZATION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION GRANTS

SEC. 601. In order to assist the States in carrying out the purposes of section 600, there are authorized to be appropriated

(a) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and each of the next four fiscal years

(1) $70,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit facilities for long-term care;

(2) $20,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit diagnostic or treatment centers;

(3) $10,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities; (b) for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers and for grants for modernization of such facilities and the facilities referred to in paragraph (a), $150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $160,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $170,000,000 for the

130 Title VI was completely revised by sec. 3(a) P.L. 88-443.

fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and $180,000,000 each for the next two fiscal years.

STATE ALLOTMENTS

SEC. 602. (a) (1) Each State shall be entitled for each fiscal year to an allotment bearing the same ratio to the sums appropriated for such year pursuant to subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively, of section 601(a), and to an allotment bearing the same ratio to the new hospital portion of the sums appropriated for such year pursuant to section 601 (b), as the product of—

(A) the population of such State, and

(B) the square of its allotment percentage, bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all of the States. As used in this paragraph, the new hospital portion of sums appropriated pursuant to section 601(b) (which portion shall be available for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers) is 100 per centum of such sums in the case of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, seven-eighths thereof in the case of the first fiscal year thereafter, twenty-seven thirty-fourths thereof in the case of the second fiscal year thereafter, thirteen-eighteenths thereof in the case of the third fiscal year thereafter, twenty-five thirty-sixths thereof in the case of the fourth fiscal year thereafter.

(2) 131 For each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1965, the Surgeon General shall, in accordance with regulations, make allotments from the remainder of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 601 (b) (which portion shall be available for grants for modernization of facilities referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 601) on the basis of the population, the extent of the need for modernization of the facilities referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 601, and the financial need of the respective States.

(b) (1) The allotment to any State under subsection (a) for fiscal year which is less than

(A) $25,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam and $50,000 for any other State, in the case of an allotment for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities,

(B) $50,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam and $200,000 for any other State in

131 Sec. 3(b) (5) of P.L. 88-443, provides for the following exception in sec. 602 (a) (2) of the PHS Act: "no application with respect to a project for modernization of any facility in any State may be approved by the Surgeon General, for purposes of receiving funds from an allotment under sec. 602 (a) (2) of the PHS Act, as amended by P.L. 88-443. before July 1. 1965, or before such State has had a State plan approved by the Surgeon General as meeting the requirements of sec. 604 (a) (4) (B) as well as the other requirements of sec. 604 of such act as so amended."