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Title 48 — Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-73

§1666 Extension of scientific, technical, and other assistance; grant-in-aid program restriction; limitations on expenditures

Title 48 › Chapter CHAPTER 13— - EASTERN SAMOA › § 1666

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the Secretary of the Interior asks, the head of any federal department, agency, or corporation may give American Samoa free scientific, technical, and other help that the Secretary thinks will help its people. That offer does not include money given through grant-in-aid programs. The Secretary may not ask for help that will cost agencies more than $150,000 total in any one fiscal year, based on cost estimates given in advance by those agencies. The Secretary of Agriculture may make the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act available to American Samoa (the school lunch program). The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may make available the Vocational Education Act of 1946, the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, and section 246 of title 42 to American Samoa.

Full Legal Text

Title 48, §1666

Territories and Insular Possessions — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Upon request of the Secretary of the Interior— (a)
(b)the Secretary of Agriculture may extend to American Samoa the benefits of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended [42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.]; and
(c)the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may extend to American Samoa the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946, the Hospital Survey and Construction Act [42 U.S.C. 291 et seq.], and section 246 of title 42, all as amended.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended, referred to in subsec. (b), is act June 4, 1946, ch. 281, 60 Stat. 230, which is classified generally to chapter 13 (§ 1751 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1751 of Title 42 and Tables. The Vocational Education Act of 1946, referred to in subsec. (c), is act June 8, 1936, ch. 541, 49 Stat. 1488, which was classified to sections 15h to 15q, 15aa to 15jj, and 15aaa to 15ggg of Title 20, Education, and was repealed by section 103 of Pub. L. 90–576, title I, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1091. See section 2301 et seq. of Title 20. The Hospital Survey and

Construction

Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 958, 60 Stat. 1041, which added a title VI to the Public Health Service Act, and was classified to subchapter IV (§ 291 et seq.) of chapter 6A of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Such title VI was amended generally by Pub. L. 88–443, § 3(a) Aug. 18, 1964, 78 Stat. 447. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–78 substituted “Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act” for “National School Lunch Act”. 1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–208 struck out “the Library Services Act,” after “the Vocational Education Act of 1946,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

and offices (relating to education) of Secretary and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to Secretary and Department of Education, and termination of certain offices and positions and redesignation of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as Secretary of Health and Human Services, see section 3441, 3503, and 3508 of Title 20, Education.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

48 U.S.C. § 1666

Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73