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PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

[78 STAT.

" P A R T A—GRANTS AND LOANS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MODERNIZATION OP HOSPITALS AND OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION GRANTS

"SEC. 601. I n order to assist the States in carrying out the purposes of section 600, there are authorized to be appropriated— " (a) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and each of the next four fiscal years— "(1) $70,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit facilities for long-term care; "(2) $20,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit diagnostic or treatment centers; "(3) $10,000,000 for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities; " (b) for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers and for grants for modernization of such facilities and the facilities referred to in paragraph (a), $150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $160,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $170,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and $180,000,000 each for the next two fiscal years. "STATE ALLOTMENTS

"SEC. 602. (a)(1) Each State shall be entitled for each fiscal year to an allotment bearing the same ratio to the sums appropriated for such year pursuant to subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively, of section 601(a), and to an allotment bearing the same ratio to the new hospital portion of the sums appropriated for such year pursuant to section 601(b), as the product of— " (A) the population of such State, and " (B) the square of its allotment percentage, bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all of the States. As used in this paragraph, the new hospital portion of sums appropriated pursuant to section 601(b) (which portion shall be available for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers) is 100 per centum of such sums in the case of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, seven-eighths thereof in the case of the first fiscal year thereafter, twenty-seven thirty-fourths thereof in the case of the second fiscal year thereafter, thirteeneighteenths thereof in the case of the third fiscal year thereafter, twenty-five thirty-sixths thereof in the case of the fourth fiscal year thereafter. " (2) For each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1965, the Surgeon General shall, in accordance with regulations, make allotments from the remainder of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 601(b) (which portion shall be available for grants for modernization of facilities referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 601) on the basis of the population, the extent of the need for modernization of the facilities referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 601, and the financial need of the respective States. " (b)(1) The allotment to any State under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which is less than— " (A) $25,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam and $50,000 for any other State, in the case of an allotment for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, " (B) $50,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam and $100,000 for any other State in the case of an allotment

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