[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 574 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 574

   To provide for the operation of laboratories to carry out certain 
 public-health functions for the region along the international border 
                              with Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1995

 Mr. Coleman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the operation of laboratories to carry out certain 
 public-health functions for the region along the international border 
                              with Mexico.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Southwest Public Health Laboratory 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC-HEALTH LABORATORIES FOR SOUTHWESTERN BORDER REGION.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting as appropriate 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
or through other agencies, may make grants to States for the operation 
of laboratories to protect the public health through analyzing human, 
wildlife, air, water, and soil samples. The purposes for which the 
Secretary may authorize such a grant to be expended include the 
establishment of the laboratories, increasing the capacity of existing 
facilities, and collecting the samples to be analyzed by the 
laboratories. The Secretary may make such a grant only if the State 
involved agrees that the laboratory will be operated by the State, and 
will serve the region along the international border between the United 
States and Mexico (in the States of California, Arizona, New Mexico, 
and Texas). The Secretary shall ensure that such a laboratory is 
established in an urban area that is centrally located in such region, 
that the laboratory is located within 25 miles of such border, and that 
the laboratory receives the principal amount of assistance under this 
section.
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