Sec. 31021. Funding for laboratory activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000,000 for purposes of carrying out, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in this section referred to as the Director ), activities described in subsection (b), to remain available until expended. Amounts made available by subsection
(a)shall be used for the following activities: Supporting renovation, expansion, and modernization of State and local public health laboratory infrastructure (as the term laboratory is defined in section 353 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 263a )), including— increasing and enhancing testing and response capacity; upgrades and expansion of the Laboratory Response Network for rapid outbreak detection; improving and expanding genomic sequencing capabilities to detect emerging diseases and variant strains; expanding biosafety and biosecurity capacity; and making other laboratory enhancements and modernization as determined by the Director to be important for maintaining public health. Renovating, expanding, and modernizing laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(E)of paragraph (1). Enhancing the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor and exercise oversight over biosafety and biosecurity of State and local public health laboratories.
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Funding for laboratory activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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