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PUBLIC LAW 482-JULY 12, 1954

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"(2) provides for the utilization of the State advisory council provided in section 623(a)(3), and if such council does not include representatives of nongovernment organizations or groups, or State agencies, concerned with rehabilitation, provides for consultation with organizations, groups, and State agencies so concerned; and "(3) provides for making an inventory and survey containing all information required by the Surgeon General and for developing a construction program in accordance with section 653. aALLOTMENTS

TO STATES

"SEC. 648. Each State shall be entitled to an allotment of such proportion of any appropriation made pursuant to section 646 as its population bears to the population of all the States, and within such allotment shall be entitled to receive 50 per centum of its expenditures in carrying out the purposes of section 641(a) in accordance with its application: Provided, That no such allotment to any State shall be less than $25,000. The Surgeon General shall from time to time estimate the sum to which each State will be entitled under this section, during such ensuing period as he may determine, and shall thereupon certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which the Surgeon General finds that his estimate for any prior period was greater or less than the amount to which the State was entitled for such period. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Surgeon General, the amount so certified. "(b) Any funds paid to a State under this section and not expended for the purposes for which paid shall be repaid to the Treasury of the United States." 42Usc29W9in. g^c. 3. Title VI of the Public Health Service Act is further amended by adding a new part G to read as follows: " P A R T G—CONSTKUCTION or DIAGNOSTIC OR TREATMENT CENTERS, CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITALS, EEHABILITATION FACILITIES, AND NURSING HOMES "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION

"SEC. 651. I n order to assist the States in carrying out the purposes of section 641(b), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years— "(1) $20,000,000 for grants for the construction of public and other nonprofit diagnostic or treatment centers; "(2) $20,000,000 for grants for the construction of public and other nonprofit hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired; "(3) $10,000,000 for grants for the construction of public and other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities; and "(4) $10,000,000 for grants for the construction of public and other nonprofit nursing homes. uALLOTMENTS TO STATES

"SEC. 652. Each State shall be entitled for each fiscal year to an allotment of a sum bearing the same ratio to the sums appropriated for such year pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4), respectively, of section 651, as the product of (a) the population of such State and

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