Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Rural Development Act, to identify rural communities where emergency ambulance services are needed and to encourage the development of such services by guaranteeing loans to associated community health councils.
Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 to establish pilot programs under this Act.
Empowers the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to suspend or modify regulations and policies with respect to ambulance vehicles and equipment to insure availability of emergency services to citizens in rural areas.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
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