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 PUBLIC LAW 88-164-OCT. 31, 1963

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[77 STAT.

Public Law 88-164 October 31, 1963 [S. 1576]

Mental Retardation F a c i l i t i e s and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963.

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AN ACT assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for conof research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally and assistance in improving mental health through grants for conof community mental health centers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963". TITLE I—CONSTRUCTION OF R E S E A R C H C E N T E R S AND FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED SHORT

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SEC. 100. This title may be cited as the "Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act". PART A—GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION or CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON MENTAL RETARDATION AND RELATED ASPECTS OF H U M A N DEVELOPMENT 70 Stat. 717; Ante, p. 164. 42 USC 292292i.

SEC. 101. Title VII of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new part: "PART D—CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON MENTAL RETARDATION AND RELATED ASPECTS OF H U M A N DEVELOPMENT a AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 761. There are authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and $6,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, for project grants to assist in meeting the costs of construction of facilities for research, or research and related purposes, relating to human development, whether biological, medical, social, or behavioral, which may assist in finding the causes, and means of prevention, of.mental retardation, or in finding means of ameliorating the ejffects of mental retardation. Sums so appropriated shall remain available until expended for payments with respect to projects or which applications have been filed under this part before July 1, 1967, and approved by the Surgeon General thereunder before July 1, 1968. ((APPLICATION S "SEC. 762. (a) Applications for grants under this part with respect to any facility may be approved by the Surgeon General only if— "(1) the applicant is a public or nonprofit institution which the Surgeon General determines is competent to engage in the type of research for which the facility is to be constructed; and (2) the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that (A) for not less than twenty years after completion of construction, the facility will be used for the research, or research and related purposes, for which it was constructed; (B) sufficient funds will be available for meeting the non-Federal share of the cost of constructing the facility; (C) sufficient funds

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