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PUBLIC LAW 88-204-DEC. 16, 1963

TITLE II—GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION O F GRADUATE ACADEMIC FACILITIES APPROPRIATIONS

AUTHORIZED

SEC. 201. I n order to increase the supply of highly qualified personnel critically needed by the community, industry, government, research, and teaching, the Commissioner shall, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years, make construction grants to assist institutions of higher education to improve existing graduate schools and cooperative graduate centers, and to assist in the establishment of graduate schools and cooperative graduate centers of excellence. For the purpose of making grants under this title, there is hereby authorized to be appropiated the sum of $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and the sum of $60,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and the succeeding fiscal year; but for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and the succeeding fiscal year, only such sums may be appropriated as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law. Sums so appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, shall remain available for grants under this title until the end of the next succeeding fiscal year. GRANTS

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SEC. 202. (a) Grants under this title may be made to institutions of higher education and to cooperative graduate center boards to assist them to meet the development costs for projects for constiTiction of academic facilities for graduate schools and cooperative graduate centers. Such grants may be made only upon application therefor at such time or times, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Commissioner finds necessary to determine eligibility for the grants and the amounts thereof. (b) Grants under this title for construction of academic facilities may not exceed 33i/^ per centum of the development cost of any such construction project. (c)(1) The Commissioner shall not approve any application for a grant under this title without the advice of the Advisory Committee established under section 203. (2) I n determining whether to approve applications for grants under this title, the order in which to approve such applications, and the amount of the grants, the Commissioner shall give consideration to the extent to which such projects will contribute to achieving the objectives of this title and also the extent to which they will aid in attaining a wider distribution throughout the United States of graduate schools and cooperative graduate centers. (d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this title the total of the payments from the appropriations for any fiscal year under this title made with respect to projects in any State may not exceed an amount equal to 1 2 ^ per centum of such appropriation. ADVISORY COMMITTEE

SEC. 203. (a) There is hereby established in the Office of Education an Advisory Committee on Graduate Education, consisting of the Commissioner, who shall be Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President; one from the National Science Foundation; and eight members appointed, without regard to the civil service laws, by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Such appointed members shall be selected from leading

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