Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 78.djvu/491

 78 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

449

for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit diagnostic or treatment centers, or " (C) $100,000 for the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam and $200,000 for any other State in the case of an allotment for grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit facilities for long-term care or for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers, or for the modernization of facilities referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 601, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotment from appropriations under such subparagraph or paragraph to each of the remaining States under subsection (a) of this section, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States from appropriations under such subparagraph or paragraph from being thereby reduced to less than that amount. "(2) An allotment of the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam for any fiscal year may be increased as provided in paragraph (1) only to the extent it satisfies the Surgeon General, at such time prior to the beginning of such year as the Surgeon General may designate, that such increase will be used for payments under and in accordance with the provisions of this part. " (c) For the purposes of this part— cenlL^eT"* ^^"^ "(1) The 'allotment percentage' for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States, except that (A) the allotment percentage shall in no case be more than 75 per centum or less than ZSy^ per centum, and (B) the allotment percentage for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands shall be 75 per centum. "(2) The allotment percentages shall be determined by the Surgeon General between July 1 and September 30 of each even-numbered year, on the basis of the average of the per capita incomes of each of the States and of the United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce, and the States shall be notified promptly thereof. Such determination shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning July 1 next succeeding such determination. "(3) The population of the several States shall be determined on the basis of the latest figures certified by the Department of Commerce. "(4) The term 'United States' means (but only for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2)) the fifty States and the District of Columbia. " (d)(1) Any sum allotted to a State, other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam for a fiscal year under this section and lemaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State, for the purpose for which made, for the next fiscal year (and for such year only), in addition to the sums allotted to such State for such purpose for such next fiscal year. "(2) Any sum allotted to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or Guam for a fiscal year under this section and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to it, for the purpose for which made, for the next two fiscal years (and for such years only), in addition to the sums allotted to it for such purpose for each of such next two fiscal years. " (e)(1) Upon the request of any State that— " (A) a specified portion of any allotment of such State under paragraph (1) of subsection (a), other than an allotment for

�