An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authorization for grants for communicable disease control and vaccination assistance
PL 91-464 (S.2264), enacted 10/16/1970

PUBLIC L
A
W 91-464-OCT. 16, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
October 16, 1970 
[S. 2264] 
Communicable 
Disease Control 
Amendments of 
1970. 
76 Stat. 1155; 
79 Stat. 435. 
Appropriation, 
Definitions. 
Payment. 
Grant reduction. 
Public Law 91-464 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authorization for grants for 
communicable disease control and vaccination assistance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "C!ommunicable Disease Control Amendments of 1970 . 
;, 
GRANTS FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL 
SEC. 2. Section 317 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247b) is amended to read as follows: 
u 
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL AND VACCINATION ASSISTANCE 
"SEC. 317. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
$75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and $90,000,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, to enable the Secretary to 
make grants to States and, with the approval of the State health 
authority, to political subdivisions or instrumentalities of the States 
under this subsection. In the award of such grants the Secretary shall 
give consideration to the relative extent of the problems relating to one 
or more of the diseases referred to in subsection (b) (1) and to the 
levels of performance in preventing and controlling such diseases. 
Such grants may be used for meeting the cost of communicable disease 
control programs, including the cost of studies to determine the 
communicalne disease control needs of communities and the means of 
best meeting such needs. 
"(b) For the purposes of this subsection— 
" (1) a 'communicable disease control program' means a program 
which is designed and conducted so as to contribute to national 
protection against tuberculosis, venereal disease, rubella, measles, 
Rh disease, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough or 
other communicable diseases which are transmitted from State to 
State, are amenable to reduction, and which are determined by the 
Secretary on the recommentation of the National Advisory 
Health Council to be of national significance, and 
"(2) the term 'State' includes the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. 
"(c) Payments under this section may be made in advance on the 
basis of estimates or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjust-
ments on account of underpayments, or overpayments, in such install-
ments and on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds necessary 
to carry out the purposes of this section. 
"(d) The Secretary, at the request of a recipient of a grant under 
this section, may reduce such grant by the fair market value of any 
supplies (including vaccines and other preventive agents), or equip-
ment furnished to such recipient and by the amount of the pay, allow-
ances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the 
detail of an officer or employee to the recipient when the furnishing of 
such supplies or equipment, or of the detail of such officer or employee 
(as the case may be), is for the convenience of and at the request of 
such recipient and for the purpose of carrying out theprogram with 
respect to which the grant imder this section is made. The amount by 
which any such grant is so reduced shall be available for payment by 
the Secretary of the costs incurred in furnishing the supplies, equip-
ment, or personal services on which the reduction of such grant is 
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based, but such amount shall be deemed a part of the ffrant to such 
recipient and shall, for the purposes of subsection (c),be deemed to 
have been paid to such agency. 
"(e) Nothing in this section shall limit or otherwise restrict the 
use of funds which are granted to a State or to a political subdivision 
of a State under other provisions of this Act or other Federal law and 
which are available for the conduct of communicable disease control 
programs from being used in connection with programs assisted 
through grants under this section. 
"(fj The Secretary shall submit an annual report to the President 
for submission to the Congress on the effectiveness of activities assisted 
under this section in preventing and controlling communicable diseases. 
"(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any State 
or any political subdivision or instrumentality of a State to have a 
communicable disease control or vaccination program which would 
require any person who objects to such treatment to be treated, or to 
have any child or ward of his treated." 
Approved October 16, 1970. 
Report to 
President and 
Congress. 
Public Law 91-465 
AN ACT 
To authorize the establishmeut of the Andersonville National Historic Site in the 
State of Georgia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate a^\d House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in order to 
provide an understanding of the overall prisoner-of-war story of the 
Civil War, to interpret the role of prisoner-of-war camps in history, 
to commemorate the sacrifice of Americans who lost their lives in such 
camps, and to preserve the monuments located therein, the Secretary is 
hereby authorized to designate not more than five hundred acres in 
Macon and Sumter Counties, Georgia, for establishment as the Ander-
sonville National Historic Site. 
SEC. 2. Within the area designated pursuant to section 1 of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior may acquire by donation, purchase with 
donated or appropriated funds, transfer from any Federal agency, or 
exchange lands and interests therein for the purposes of this Act. 
When an individual tract of land is only partly within the area desig-
nated, the Secretary may acquire the entire tract by any of the above 
methods to avoid the payment of severance costs. Land so acquired 
outside the designated area may be exchanged by the Secretary for 
non-Federal lands within such area, and any portion of the land not 
utilized for such exchanges may be disposed of in accordance with 
the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.). In 
exercising his authority to acquire property by exchange, the Secre-
tary may accept title to any non-Federal property within such area, 
and in exchange therefor he may convev to the grantor of such prop-
erty any federally owned property in tlie State of Georgia under his 
jurisdiction which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other dis-
posal. The values of the properties so exchanged either shall be 
approximately equal, or if they are not approximately equal the values 
shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secre-
tary as the circumstances require. Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law. Federal property designated for the purposes of the national 
historic site may, with the concurrence of the head of the agency hav-
ing custody thereof, be transferred, without a transfer of funds, to the 
administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for the 
purposes of this Act. 
October 16, 1970 
[H. R. 140] 
Andersonville 
National Historic 
Site, Ga. 
E St abl i shment. 
Land acquisi-
tion.