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This Act may be cited as the ''Lyme Disease Prevention, Control,
and Research Amendments of 1993''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF LYME
DISEASE.

Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.),
as amended by section 308 of Public Law 102-531 (106 Stat. 3495), is
amended by inserting after section 317D the following section:

''prevention and control of lyme disease

''Sec. 317E. (a) General Program.--
''(1) Program of grants.--The Secretary, acting through the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may
make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the
purpose of carrying out programs for the prevention, control,
and treatment of Lyme disease.
''(2) Preferences in making grants.--In making grants under
paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to public
and nonprofit private entities that agree to carry out the
purposes for which the grant is made in 1 or more States for
which, as of calendar year 1990--
''(A) a cumulative total of not less than 500 cases
of Lyme disease was reported to and confirmed by the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention; or
''(B) the cumulative per capita incidence of cases
of such disease (reported to and confirmed by such
Director) was not less than 5 cases per 100,000
individuals.
''(3) Priorities among authorized purposes.--In making
grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give priority
to making grants for the following:
''(A) The development and evaluation of strategies
for the prevention and control of Lyme disease
(including, with respect to the tick that carries the
etiologic agent for the disease, strategies to manage
deer and other means through which the tick is
introduced into areas frequented by humans).
''(B) Demonstration projects (administered by State
or local departments of health) to improve methods of
estimating the incidence and prevalence of such
disease, including projects involving the reporting by
physicians of cases of the disease.
''(C) Demonstration projects for the control of the
disease in communities with a substantial incidence or
prevalence of the disease.
''(D) Studies to determine the effects of the
disease on the individual and on society, including the
economic costs of the disease.
''(E) The improvement of diagnostic tests for the
disease.
''(F) The provision of information and education to
health care professionals and the public.
''(G) Demonstration projects for treating children
for such disease.
''(b) National Research Centers for Prevention, Control, and
Treatment.--
''(1) In general.--The Secretary, acting through the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may
make awards of grants or contracts to public and nonprofit
private entities for the establishment or operation (or both)
of not more than 5 centers to carry out basic and clinical
research on the prevention, control, and treatment of Lyme
disease.
''(2) Preferences in making awards.--In making awards under
paragraph (1) for a center, the Secretary shall give preference
to an applicant according to the extent to which the following
applies to the applicant:
''(A) The applicant is experienced in conducting
research on the prevention, control, and treatment of
Lyme disease.
''(B) The center is or will be located in a State
described in subsection (a)(2).
''(C) The center is or will be located in a
geographic area in which individuals are employed in
occupations involving a significant risk of contracting
Lyme disease.
''(D) The applicant has diagnosed not less than 150
cases of such disease.
''(E) The applicant has cultured the etiologic
agent for Lyme disease in mediums from vectors, from
animals, and from humans.
''(3) Priorities among activities of centers.--The
Secretary may make an award under paragraph (1) only if the
applicant involved agrees that the center for which the award
is made will give priority to the following:
''(A) Conducting research on new treatments for
Lyme disease.
''(B) Conducting research on the development of a
vaccine to immunize individuals against the disease.
''(C) Conducting studies of the latter stages of
such disease.
''(D) Conducting epidemiological studies of such
disease in particular populations of individuals.
''(4) Amount of award.--The Secretary may not make an award
under paragraph (1) in an amount less than $500,000.
''(c) Application for Assistance.--The Secretary may make an award
of a grant or contract under subsection (a) or (b) only if an
application for the award is submitted to the Secretary and the
application is in such form, is made in such manner, and contains such
agreements, assurances, and information as the Secretary determines to
be necessary to carry out such subsection.
''(d) Funding.--
''(1) Authorization of appropriations.--For the purpose of
carrying out this section, there are authorized to be
appropriated $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.
Such authorization of appropriations is in addition to any
other authorization of appropriations that is available for
such purpose.
''(2) Allocations.--Of the amounts appropriated under
paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall make
available 40 percent for carrying out subsection (a) and 60
percent for carrying out subsection (b).''.
Student:
Lyme Disease Prevention, Control, and Research Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to make: (1) grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the prevention, control, and treatment of Lyme disease; and (2) grants to, or contracts with, such entities for the establishment and/or operation of up to five centers to carry out basic and clinical research on the prevention, control, and treatment of Lyme disease. Sets forth preferences and priorities for such grants and contracts.
Authorizes and allocates appropriations.