The Commission recommends that for all
elements of the venereal disease control
effort the Federal Government appropriate
and expend through the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare in fiscal
year 1973 a total of $40,150,000, these
sums increasing to $68,035,000 in fiscal
year 1977. No specific recommendations
regarding specific legislative mechanisms
are made, though it is clear that unless
authorizations for continued appropriations
under Section 317 of the Public Health
Service Act are enacted, a change in the
channeling of funds for grants to States
will be needed. Also, no specific
recommendations are made regarding the
administrative unit or units of the
Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare which can most appropriately
have responsibility for the various new
elements of the program.
Table IV presents a more detailed
explanation of the derivation of the
figures recommended above.