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

SEC. 507.127

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.

1The 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17 Sec. 507 repealed by sec. 5 of P.L. 147, 84th Congress.

42 U.S.C. 223

42 U.S.C. 224.

42 U.S.C. 226

42 U.S.C. 227

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

42 U.S.C. 228

42 U.S.C. 229

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

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 disburse

ments.

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."

the case of an allotment for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit diagnostic or treatment centers, or

(C) $100,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and $200,000 for any other State in the case of an allotment for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit facilities for longterm care or for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers, or for the modernization of facilities referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 601,

shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotment from appropriations under such subparagraph or paragraph to each of the remaining States under subsection (a) of this section, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States from appropriations under such subparagraph or paragraph from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.

(2) An allotment of the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam for any fiscal year may be increased as provided in paragraph (1) only to the extent it satisfies the Surgeon General, at such time prior to the beginning of such year as the Surgeon General may designate, that such increase will be used for payments under and in accordance with the provisions of this part.

(c) For the purposes of this part

(1) The "allotment percentage" for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States, except that (A) the allotment percentage shall in no case be more than 75 per centum or less than 3313 per centum, and (B) the allotment percentage for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands shall be 75 per centum.

(2) 132 The allotment percentages shall be determined by the Surgeon General between July 1 and September 30 of each even-numbered year, on the basis of the average of the per capita incomes of each of the States and of the United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce, and the States shall be notified promptly thereof. Such determination shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning July 1 next succeeding such determination.

132 Sec. 3(b) (2) of P.L. 88-443, provides for the following exception in sec. 602 (c) (2) of the PHS Act: "Allotment percentages promulgated by the Surgeon General under such title VI during 1962 shall continue to be effective for purposes of such title as amended by P.L. 88-443 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965."