Sec. 106.
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the Secretary ) shall award grants to territories of the United States for the purpose of combating the Zika virus. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a territory shall submit to the Secretary a plan describing how the territory will use the grant funds. Within 30 days of receiving such a plan, the Secretary shall— approve any such plan that includes efforts for combating the Zika virus through education, prevention, testing, screening, treatment, services, or evaluation efforts; or disapprove any such plan that contains extraneous efforts not related to combating the Zika virus.
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated, $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2016. Any unobligated funds available on October 1, 2018, shall be returned to the general fund of the Treasury. For purposes of this section, the term territory means Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the United States Virgin Islands. Amounts made available to carry out this section shall be designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that such amounts shall be available only if the President subsequently so designates such amounts and transmits such designation to the Congress.