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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 1990

25 USC 1613. 42 USC 254r.

PUBLIC LAW 97-394—DEC. 30, 1982

contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Act, for scholarship programs under section 103 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and section 757 of the Public Health Service Act shall remain available for expenditure until September 30, 1984. 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 sites; purchase and erection of portable buildings, purchase 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 25 USC 450 note. (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act and the Indian 25 USC 1601 Health Care Improvement Act, $34,700,000, to remain available "°*® until expended. 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, 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 the Talihina Hospital in Talihina, Oklahoma, and the Zuni-Ramah Indian Health Service Unit in Zuni, New Mexico, 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 the fund established by sections 401 and 402 of 42 USC I395f, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further. That ancfnotfs^^i396" ^^^^^ appropriated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except and notes,' I396d. those used for administrative and program direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further. That notwithstanding current regulations, eligibility for Indian Health Services shall be extended to non-Indians in only two situations: (1) a non-Indian woman pregnant with an eligible Indian's child for the duration of her pregnancy through postpartum, and (2) non-Indian members of an eligible Indian's household if the medical officer in charge determines that this is necessary to control acute infectious disease or a public health hazard.