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PUBLIC LAW 88-129-SEPT. 24, 1963

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pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, nurses, or professional ublic health personnel, of which not more than $15,000,000 may e available for grants before July 1, 1964, and not more than $60,000,000 in the aggregate may be available for grants before July 1, 1965; "(2) $35,000,000 in the aggregate for grants to assist in the construction of new teaching facilities for m e training of dentists, of which not more than $5,000,000 may be available for grants before July 1, 1964, and not more than $20,000,000 in the aggregate may be available for grants before July 1, 1965; and " (3) $35,000,000 in the ag^re^ate for replacement or rehabilitation of existing teaching facilities for the training of physicians, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, nurses, professional public health personnel, or dentists, of which not more than $5,000,000 may be available for grants before July 1, 1964, and not more than $20,000,000 in the aggregate may be available for grants before July 1, 1965. If and to the extent the Surgeon General determines such action will better carry out the objectives of this part, the limitations on the amounts available for grants before July 1, 1964, under any paragraph of this section shall fe decreased and the limitation on the amount so available under any other paragraph of this section shall be correspondingly increased; and the amounts appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, under each of such paragraphs shall be similarly adjusted by transfer between them. J n applying the dollar limitations of each of those paragraphs for the three-year period ending June 30, 1966, any amount appropriated under any such paragraph but transferred under the preceding sentence to the appropriation under smother paragraph shall be deemed to have been appropriated only under such other paragraph.

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"APPROVAL or APPLICATIONS

"SEC. 721. (a) No application for a grant under this part may be approved unless it is submitted to the Surgeon General prior to July 1, 1965. " (b)(1) To be eligible to apply for a grant to assist in the construction of any facility under this part, the applicant must be (A) a public or other nonprofit school of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, nursing, or public health and (B) accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education, except that a new school which (by reason of no, or an insufficient, period of operation) is not, at the time of application for a grant to construct a facility under this part, eligible for accreditation by such a recognized body or bodies, shall be deemed accredited for purposes of this part if the Commissioner of Education finds, after consultation with the appropriate accreditation body or bodies, that there is reasonable assurance that the school will, upon completion of such facility, meet the accreditation standards of such body or bodies. "(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in the case of an affiliated hospital, an application which is approved by the school of medicine or school of osteopathy with which the hospital is affiliated and which otherwise complies with the requirements of this part- may be filed by any public or other nonprofit agency qualified to file an application under section 625. "(3) I n the case of any application, whether filed by a school or, in the case of an affiliated hospital, by any other public or other nonprofit agency, for a ^ a n t under this part to assist m the construction of a facility which is a hospital as defined in section 631—

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