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RAJCEY COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS INTRODUCTION The Community Health Services Act passed in 1976 authorized a state subsidy to local units of government for the purpose of developing and maintaining an "integrated system of community health services under local administration with a system of state guidelines and standards." The Ramsey County Board of Health is receiving these subsidy funds and has included environmental health services as part of its Community Health Services Plan. The Community Health Services Act of 1976 defines environmental health services as "those services designated to achieve an environment conducive to man's health, comfort, safety and well - being. The services include food protection, hazardous substances and product safety, water supply sanitation, septic tank and soil absorption type sewage disposal, water pollution control, occupational health and safety, radiation control, air pollution control, noise pollution control, vector control, institution sanitation, recreational sani- tation including swimming pool safety and sanitation, housing code enforcement for health and safety pu l.,oses unless the enforcement is performed by another city or county agency designated by the county board or city council and general nuisance control." Many of the environmental health services identified are not amenable to local control. Other environmental health services such as inspection and licensing of restaurants and lodging accommodations, regulation of on -site sewage disposal, air pollution surveillance, housing maintenance programs, srjmming pool be undertaken mental health safety and sanitation and noise control are activities which could by local units of government. The attached model describes environ- services that can be developed and implemented as local programs. 1