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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

482-JULY

12, 1954

(b) the square of its allotment percentage (as defined in section 631 (a)) bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all of the States: Provided, That no such allotment to any State for the purposes of paragraph (1) or (2) of section 651 shall be less than $100,000 and no such allotment to any State for the purpose of paragraph (3) or (4) shall be less than $50,000, but for the purpose of this proviso the term "State" shall not include the Virgin Islands. Sums allotted to a State for a jfiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State for the same purpose for the next fiscal year (and for such year only) in addition to the sums allotted to such State for such next fiscal year,

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"REGULATIONS AND APPROVAL or STATE PLANS

"SEC. 653. (a) Within six months after this part becomes effective, the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Federal Hospital Council and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the 'Secretary'), shall revise and supplement the regulations issued under section 622 to provide general standards of construction and equipment, general standards of adequacy and priority, and requirements comparable to those provided in such regulations as to nondiscrimination and persons unalble to pay, and as to general methods of administration of the State plan, for facilities for which payments are authorized under this part. After such regulations have been issued, any State desiring to take advantage of this part may submit, as a revision of, or supplement to, its plan under section 623, a plan for a construction program for diagnostic or treatment centers, hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes. The Surgeon General shall approve any such revision of, or supplement to, the State plan which is based upon a statewide inventory of existing facilities available for such purposes and which— "(1) meets the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (6), (8), and (9) of section 623(a): Provided, That if the designated advisory council does not include representatives of nongovernmental organizations or groups, or State agencies, concerned with rehabilitation, the plan shall provide for consultation with organizations, groups, and State agencies so concerned; "(2) conforms with the regulations prescribed under section 622 as revised and supplemented for the purposes of this part; "(3) sets forth, with respect to each type of facility, the relative need determined in accordance with such revised regulations, and provides for the construction, insofar as financial resources available therefor and for maintenance and operation make possible, of such facilities in the order of such relative needs; and "(4) provides that the State agency will from time to time review its construction program for such facilities as a part of its State plan and submit to the Surgeon General any modifications thereof which it considers necessary. "(b) The provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of section 623 shall be applicable to State plans with respect to projects for construction under this part. Except with respect to hospitals, the provisions of subsection (d) of such section shall not be applicable to State plans with respect to projects for construction under this part. "APPROVAL OF PROJECTS AND PAYMENTS—FEDERAL SHARE

"SEC. 654. (a) Applications under this part by States, political subdivisions, or public or other nonprofit agencies for (1) public or

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