[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR96.2]

[Page 490]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 96_BLOCK GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A_Introduction
 
Sec. 96.2  Definitions.

    (a) Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services or 
his designee.
    (b) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services.
    (c) Reconciliation Act means the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
of 1981 (Pub. L. 97-35).
    (d) State includes the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and 
as appropriate with respect to each block grant, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for purposes of the 
block grants administered by agencies of the Public Health Service, the 
Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 
and the Republic of Palau.

[47 FR 29486, July 6, 1982, as amended at 52 FR 37965, Oct. 13, 1987; 64 
FR 55856, Oct. 15, 1999]