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[CITE: 42USC254]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
        Part C--Hospitals, Medical Examinations, and Medical Care
 
Sec. 254. Interdepartmental work

    Nothing contained in this part shall affect the authority of the 
Service to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any 
work of services, requested in accordance with sections 1535 and 1536 of 
title 31, or the authority of any other executive department to furnish 
any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work or services, 
requested by the Department of Health and Human Services for the Service 
in accordance with that section.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 327, 58 Stat. 697; 1953 Reorg. 
Plan No. 1, Secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; 
Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                          Codification

    ``Sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31'' substituted in text for 
``section 7 of the Act of May 21, 1920, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 
edition, title 31, sec. 686)'' on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, 
Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which 
enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health 
Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, 
and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred 
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, 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.
    Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security 
Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by 
section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 
3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator 
abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and 
Department of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-
88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20.
