PUBLIC LAW 108–7—FEB. 20, 2003
117 STAT. 325
of State as may be necessary to pay the costs of acquisition, lease, alteration, renovation, and management of facilities outside of the United States for the use of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of State shall cooperate fully with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Department of Health and Human Services has secure, safe, functional facilities that comply with applicable regulation governing location, setback, and other facilities requirements and serve the purposes established by this Act. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized, in consultation with the Secretary of State, through grant or cooperative agreement, to make available to public or nonprofit private institutions or agencies in participating foreign countries, funds to acquire, lease, alter, or renovate facilities in those countries as necessary to conduct programs of assistance for international health activities, including activities relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, chronic and environmental diseases, and other health activities abroad. SEC. 216. The Division of Federal Occupational Health may utilize personal services contracting to employ professional management/administrative and occupational health professionals. SEC. 217. (a) Section 311 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3030a) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)— (A) in the caption, by striking ‘‘of cash or commodities’’ and inserting ‘‘and payment’’; and (B) in paragraph (1)— (i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary of Agriculture shall allot and provide in the form of cash or commodities or a combination thereof (at the discretion of the State) to each State agency’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary shall allot and provide, in accordance with this section, to or on behalf of each State agency’’; and (ii) by striking ‘‘to each grantee’’ and inserting ‘‘to or on behalf of each grantee’’; and (2) in subsection (d)— (A) in the caption, to read as follows: ‘‘Option to obtain commodities from Secretary of Agriculture’’; (B) in paragraph (1), to read as follows: ‘‘Each State agency and each grantee under title VI shall be entitled to use all or any part of amounts allotted under subsection (b) to obtain from the Secretary of Agriculture commodities available through any Federal food commodity processing program, at the rates at which such commodities are valued for purposes of such program.’’; (C) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; (D) by striking paragraph (3); (E) by adding after paragraph (1) the following new paragraphs: ‘‘(2) The Secretary of Agriculture shall determine and report to the Secretary, by such date as the Secretary may require, the amount (if any) of its allotment under subsection (b) which each State agency and title VI grantee has elected to receive in the form of commodities. Such amount shall include an amount bearing the same ratio to the costs to the Secretary of Agriculture of providing such commodities under this subsection as the value of commodities received by such State
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