Table of Contents Explanation Title 42: ............. Chapter IV-Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare........... Finding Aids: Page V 3 Explanation The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The Code is divided into 50 titles which represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each title is divided into chapters which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Each chapter is further subdivided into parts covering specific regulatory areas. ISSUE DATES Each volume of the Code is revised at least once each calendar year and issued on a quarterly basis approximately as follows: Title 1 through Title 16.... Title 17 through Title 27........... Title 42 through Title 50... as of January 1 ......as of April 1 as of July 1 as of October 1 The appropriate revision date is printed on the cover of each volume. LEGAL STATUS The contents of the Federal Register are required to be judicially noticed (44 U.S.C. 1507). The Code of Federal Regulations is prima facie evidence of the text of the original documents (44 U.S.C. 1510). HOW TO USE THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS The Code of Federal Regulations is kept up to date by the individual issues of the Federal Register. These two publications must be used together to determine the latest version of any given rule. To determine whether a Code volume has been amended since its revision date (in this case, October 1, 1979), consult the "List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA)," which is issued monthly, and the “Cumulative List of Parts Affected," which appears in the Reader Aids section of the daily Federal Register. These two lists will identify the Federal Register page number of the latest amendment of any given rule. EFFECTIVE DATES Each volume of the Code contains amendments published in the Federal Register since the last revision of that volume of the Code. Source citations for the regulations are referred to by volume number and page number of the Federal Register and date of publication. Publication dates and effective dates are usually not the same and care must be exercised by the user in determining the actual effective date. In instances where the effective date is beyond the cut-off date for the Code a note has been inserted to reflect the future effective date. Provisions that become obsolete before the revision date stated on the cover of each volume are not carried. Code users may find the text of provisions in effect on a given date in the past by using the appropriate numerical list of sections affected. For the period before January 1, 1964, the user should consult the "List of Sections Affected, 1949-1963" published in a separate volume. For the period beginning January 1, 1964, a "List of CFR Sections Affected" is published at the end of each CFR volume. CFR INDEXES AND TABULAR GUIDES A subject index to the Code of Federal Regulations which is revised annually as of July 1, is contained in a separate volume entitled CFR INDEX AND FINDING AIDS. This volume contains the Parallel Table of Statutory Authorities and Agency Rules (Table I), and Acts Requiring Publication in the Federal Register (Table III). A list of CFR Titles, Chapters, and Parts, an alphabetical list of CFR subtitles and chapters, and lists of current and superseded CFR volumes are also included in this volume. An index to the text of Presidential documents appears at the end of each compilation of Title 3, The President. The Federal Register Index is issued monthly in cumulative form. This index is based on a consolidation of the “Contents” entries in the daily Federal Register. A List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA) is published monthly, keyed to the revision dates of the 50 CFR titles. INQUIRIES AND SALES Inquiries concerning technical aspects of the Code should be addressed to the Acting Director, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C. 20408 (telephone 202-523-5240). Sales are handled exclusively by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. ERNEST J. GALDI, Acting Director, Office of the Federal Register. October 1, 1979. THIS TITLE Title 42-PUBLIC HEALTH is composed of two volumes. Volume one (Parts 1399) contains all current regulations issued under Chapter I-Public Health Service (HEW), Chapter II-Children's Bureau, Social and Rehabilitation Service (HEW), and Chapter III-St. Elizabeths Hospital (HEW). Volume two (Part 400-end) includes all regulations issued under Chapter IV-Health Care Financing Administration (HEW). These volumes represent all current regulations codified under this title of the CFR as of October 1, 1979. Redesignation tables for Chapter I-Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Chapter IV-Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare appear in the Finding Aids section of these volumes. For this volume Laurence L. Davey was Chief Editor, assisted by Donna Rickett. The Code of Federal Regulations publication program is under the direction of Martha B. Girard, assisted by Robert E. Jordan. |