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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 1864

PUBLIC LAW 98-473—OCT. 12, 1984

42 USC 241, 219, Public Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, 254r. including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of reprints; purchase and erection of portable buildings; payments for telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary, $809,927,000: Provided, That funds made available to tribes and tribal organizations through grants and contracts authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450), shall remain available until September 30, 1986. Funds provided in this Act may be used for one-year contracts and grants which are to be performed in two fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is recorded in the year for which the funds are appropriated: Provided further. That the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the authority of title IV of the 25 USC note Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall be available until Sepprec. 1651. tember 30, 1986, for the purpose of achieving compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of 42 USC 1395, the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, design, construction 1396. of new facilities, or major renovation of existing Indian Health Service facilities): Provided further, That funding contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Act, for scholarship programs under section 103 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and 25 USC 1613. section 757 of the Public Health Service Act shall remain available 42 USC 254r. for expenditure until September 30, 1986. INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES

For construction, major repair, improvement, and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sit€», purchase and erection of portable buildings, purchases of trailers and for provision of domestic and community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act 25 USC 450 note, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, $62,892,000, to 25 USC 1601 remain available until expended. note. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations in this Act to the Health Services Administration, available for salaries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the rate for GS-18, and for uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), and for expenses of attendance at meetings which are concerned with the functions or activities for which the appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or management of those functions or activities: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this Act to the Indian Health Service shall be available for the initial lease of permanent structures without advance provision therefor in appropriations Acts: Provided further. That nonIndian patients may be extended health care at all Indian Health Service facilities, if such care can be extended without impairing the ability of the Indian Health Service to fulfill its responsibility to provide health care to Indians served by such facilities and subject to such reasonable charges as the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prescribe, the proceeds of which shall be deposited in