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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§2005a Amount of Assistance; Determination of Costs

Title 42 › Chapter 22— INDIAN HOSPITALS AND HEALTH FACILITIES › Subchapter II— CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY HOSPITALS › § 2005a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Financial help for a construction project must not be more than the part of the project's reasonable cost that relates to Indian health needs, as the Surgeon General decides. When deciding that part, the Surgeon General must only count groups of Indians who were receiving hospital and medical care (including outpatient and field services) from or paid for by the Public Health Service on August 16, 1957.

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Title 42, §2005a

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The amount of such financial assistance shall not exceed that portion of the reasonable cost of the construction project which is attributable to the Indian health needs, as determined by the Surgeon General: Provided, That in determining, for the purposes of this subchapter, the portion of the cost of the construction project attributable to Indian health needs, the Surgeon General shall take into account only those categories of Indians for which hospital and medical care, including outpatient care and field health services, is being provided by or at the expense of the Public Health Service on August 16, 1957.

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Transfer of Functions

Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education. Office of Surgeon General reestablished within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, see Notice of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Mar. 30, 1987, 52 F.R. 11754.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2005a

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60