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Union Calendar No. 6

108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 342

[Report No. 108–12] 

To authorize grants through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 27, 2003

Mr. JOHN (for himself, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. DINGELL, Ms. MCCARTHY of Missouri, Mr. SHIMKUS, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. PALLONE, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 

CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. WYNN, Mr. WEINER, Mr. KING of New 

York, Mr. STRICKLAND, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. PICKERING, Mr. DOYLE, 

Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. RUSH, Mr. BAKER, Mr. KENNEDY

of Minnesota, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. STUPAK, and Mr. FOLEY) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

FEBRUARY 13, 2003

Additional sponsors: Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. SOUDER, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. 

LIPINSKI, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. GORDON, Mr. VITTER, 

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. 

FROST, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. SANDLIN, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Mr. 

CASE, Mr. HALL, Mr. FORD, Mr. TANNER, Mr. BOYD, Mr. KENNEDY of 

Rhode Island, Mr. TURNER of Texas, Mrs. KELLY, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. 

POMEROY, and Mr. CRANE

FEBRUARY 13, 2003

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 

and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL

To authorize grants through the Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention for mosquito control programs to prevent 

mosquito-borne diseases, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mosquito Abatement 

5 for Safety and Health Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GRANTS REGARDING PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO7 BORNE DISEASES. 

8 Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 

9 (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.), as amended by section 4 of Public 

10 Law 107–84 and section 312 of Public Law 107–188, is 

11 amended—

12 (1) by transferring section 317R from the cur13 rent placement of the section and inserting the sec14 tion after section 317Q; and 

15 (2) by inserting after section 317R (as so trans16 ferred) the following section: 

17 ‘‘SEC. 317S. MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES; COORDINATION 

18 GRANTS TO STATES; ASSESSMENT AND CON19 TROL GRANTS TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. 

20 ‘‘(a) COORDINATION GRANTS TO STATES; ASSESS21 MENT GRANTS TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.—
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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to mosquito 

2 control programs to prevent and control mosquito3 borne diseases (referred to in this section as ‘control 

4 programs’), the Secretary, acting through the Direc5 tor of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven6 tion, may make grants to States for the purpose 

7 of—

8 ‘‘(A) coordinating control programs in the 

9 State involved; and 

10 ‘‘(B) assisting such State in making grants 

11 to political subdivisions of the State to conduct 

12 assessments to determine the immediate needs 

13 in such subdivisions for control programs, and 

14 to develop, on the basis of such assessments, 

15 plans for carrying out control programs in the 

16 subdivisions. 

17 ‘‘(2) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In 

18 making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary 

19 shall give preference to States that have one or more 

20 political subdivisions with an incidence or prevalence 

21 of mosquito-borne disease, or a population of in22 fected mosquitoes, that is substantial relative to po23 litical subdivisions in other States. 

24 ‘‘(3) CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.—A grant may 

25 be made under paragraph (1) only if—
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1 ‘‘(A) the State involved has developed, or 

2 agrees to develop, a plan for coordinating con3 trol programs in the State, and the plan takes 

4 into account any assessments or plans described 

5 in subsection (b)(3) that have been conducted 

6 or developed, respectively, by political subdivi7 sions in the State; 

8 ‘‘(B) in developing such plan, the State 

9 consulted or will consult (as the case may be 

10 under subparagraph (A)) with political subdivi11 sions in the State that are carrying out or plan12 ning to carry out control programs; 

13 ‘‘(C) the State agrees to monitor control 

14 programs in the State in order to ensure that 

15 the programs are carried out in accordance with 

16 such plan, with priority given to coordination of 

17 control programs in political subdivisions de18 scribed in paragraph (2) that are contiguous; 

19 ‘‘(D) the State agrees that the State will 

20 make grants to political subdivisions as de21 scribed in paragraph (1)(B), and that such a 

22 grant will not exceed $10,000; and 

23 ‘‘(E) the State agrees that the grant will 

24 be used to supplement, and not supplant, State 
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1 and local funds available for the purpose de2 scribed in paragraph (1). 

3 ‘‘(4) REPORTS TO SECRETARY.—A grant may 

4 be made under paragraph (1) only if the State in5 volved agrees that, promptly after the end of the fis6 cal year for which the grant is made, the State will 

7 submit to the Secretary a report that—

8 ‘‘(A) describes the activities of the State 

9 under the grant; and 

10 ‘‘(B) contains an evaluation of whether the 

11 control programs of political subdivisions in the 

12 State were effectively coordinated with each 

13 other, which evaluation takes into account any 

14 reports that the State received under subsection 

15 (b)(5) from such subdivisions. 

16 ‘‘(5) AMOUNT OF GRANT; NUMBER OF

17 GRANTS.—A State may not receive more than one 

18 grant under paragraph (1). 

19 ‘‘(b) PREVENTION AND CONTROL GRANTS TO POLIT20 ICAL SUBDIVISIONS.—

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 

22 through the Director of the Centers for Disease 

23 Control and Prevention, may make grants to polit24 ical subdivisions of States for the operation of con25 trol programs. 
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1 ‘‘(2) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In 

2 making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary 

3 shall give preference to political subdivisions that—

4 ‘‘(A) have an incidence or prevalence of 

5 mosquito-borne disease, or a population of in6 fected mosquitoes, that is substantial relative to 

7 other political subdivisions;

8 ‘‘(B) demonstrate to the Secretary that the 

9 political subdivisions will, if appropriate to the 

10 mosquito circumstances involved, effectively co11 ordinate the activities of the control programs 

12 with contiguous political subdivisions; 

13 ‘‘(C) demonstrate to the Secretary (directly 

14 or through State officials) that the State in 

15 which the political subdivision is located has 

16 identified or will identify geographic areas in 

17 the State that have a significant need for con18 trol programs and will effectively coordinate 

19 such programs in such areas; and 

20 ‘‘(D) are located in a State that has re21 ceived a grant under subsection (a). 

22 ‘‘(3) REQUIREMENT OF ASSESSMENT AND

23 PLAN.—A grant may be made under paragraph (1) 

24 only if the political subdivision involved—
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1 ‘‘(A) has conducted an assessment to de2 termine the immediate needs in such subdivi3 sion for a control program, including an ento4 mological survey of potential mosquito breeding 

5 areas; and 

6 ‘‘(B) has, on the basis of such assessment, 

7 developed a plan for carrying out such a pro8 gram. 

9 ‘‘(4) REQUIREMENT OF MATCHING FUNDS.—

10 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the 

11 costs of a control program to be carried out 

12 under paragraph (1) by a political subdivision, 

13 a grant under such paragraph may be made 

14 only if the subdivision agrees to make available 

15 (directly or through donations from public or 

16 private entities) non-Federal contributions to17 ward such costs in an amount that is not less 

than 1 18 ⁄3 of such costs ($1 for each $2 of Fed19 eral funds provided in the grant). 

20 ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT CON21 TRIBUTED.—Non-Federal contributions re22 quired in subparagraph (A) may be in cash or 

23 in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equip24 ment, or services. Amounts provided by the 

25 Federal Government, or services assisted or 
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1 subsidized to any significant extent by the Fed2 eral Government, may not be included in deter3 mining the amount of such non-Federal con4 tributions. 

5 ‘‘(C) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive 

6 the requirement established in subparagraph 

7 (A) if the Secretary determines that extraor8 dinary economic conditions in the political sub9 division involved justify the waiver. 

10 ‘‘(5) REPORTS TO SECRETARY.—A grant may 

11 be made under paragraph (1) only if the political 

12 subdivision involved agrees that, promptly after the 

13 end of the fiscal year for which the grant is made, 

14 the subdivision will submit to the Secretary, and to 

15 the State within which the subdivision is located, a 

16 report that describes the control program and con17 tains an evaluation of whether the program was ef18 fective. 

19 ‘‘(6) AMOUNT OF GRANT; NUMBER OF

20 GRANTS.—A grant under paragraph (1) for a fiscal 

21 year may not exceed $100,000. A political subdivi22 sion may not receive more than one grant under 

23 such paragraph. 

24 ‘‘(c) APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS.—A grant may be 

25 made under subsection (a) or (b) only if an application 
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1 for the grant is submitted to the Secretary and the appli2 cation is in such form, is made in such manner, and con3 tains such agreements, assurances, and information as the 

4 Secretary determines to be necessary to carry out this sec5 tion. 

6 ‘‘(d) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Amounts appro7 priated under subsection (f) may be used by the Secretary 

8 to provide training and technical assistance with respect 

9 to the planning, development, and operation of assess10 ments and plans under subsection (a) and control pro11 grams under subsection (b). The Secretary may provide 

12 such technical assistance directly or through awards of 

13 grants or contracts to public and private entities. 

14 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 

15 ‘‘(1) The term ‘control program’ has the mean16 ing indicated for such term in subsection (a). 

17 ‘‘(2) The term ‘political subdivision’ means the 

18 local political jurisdiction immediately below the level 

19 of State government, including counties, parishes, 

20 and boroughs. If State law recognizes an entity of 

21 general government that functions in lieu of, and is 

22 not within, a county, parish, or borough, the Sec23 retary may recognize an area under the jurisdiction 

24 of such other entities of general government as a po25 litical subdivision for purposes of this Act. 
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1 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 

2 purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 

3 to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, and 

4 such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 

5 2004 through 2007. In the case of control programs car6 ried out in response to a mosquito-borne disease that con7 stitutes a public health emergency, the authorization of 

8 appropriations under the preceding sentence is in addition 

9 to applicable authorizations of appropriations under the 

10 Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness 

11 and Response Act of 2002.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. RESEARCH PROGRAM OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 

13 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES. 

14 Subpart 12 of part C of title IV of the Public Health 

15 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285 et seq.) is amended by adding 

16 at the end the following section: 

17 ‘‘METHODS OF CONTROLLING CERTAIN INSECT AND

18 VERMIN POPULATIONS

19 ‘‘SEC. 463B. The Director of the Institute shall con20 duct or support research to identify or develop methods 

21 of controlling insect and vermin populations that transmit 

22 to humans diseases that have significant adverse health 

23 consequences.’’.

Union Calendar No. 6

108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 342

[Report No. 108–12] 

A BILL

To authorize grants through the Centers for Disand for other purposes. programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, ease Control and Prevention for mosquito control 

FEBRUARY 13, 2003

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed